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Stories, Poems and Notes to Self
Thoughts from Teachers / By Teachers
"THOUGHTS FOR TEACHERS FROM TEACHERS "
"INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGES FOR TEACHERS AND WE ARE ALL TEACHERS"
August 27, 2008
" Perception is the reality of the uninformed."
Copyright © 2008 Raymond C. Nolan
August 27, 2008
" Life is there for the making not for the taking."
Written in 2008 by James Byrne --- United Kingdom
This is one of mine. I hope it hits you as it hit me when it came to me.
August 27, 2008
" The bad thing about putting up a target is that we may miss it, and the worst thing about not putting up a target is that we have already missed it."
Written in 2007 by Shiraz Imam --- India
August 25, 2008
" If you surround yourself with people who tell lies for you, don't be surprised or disappointed when they lie to or about you."
Written in 2008 by Obinna Cedric Agugua --- Nigeria
August 25, 2008
" Your task as a leader is to put the right people in the right bus, on the right seats."
Written in 2008 by Matthias Schmelz --- Portugal
August 25, 2008
" With your heart you believe, with your mind you lead. Together there's no limit; apart, you simply fade."
Copyright © 2008 James Fields
Been a thought that I've always believed in and has helped me and guided me through thick and thin.
August 20, 2008
" With time, leaders learn to speak to peoples' hearts; hence why they are followed."
Written in 2008 by Karabo Senna --- South Africa
August 20, 2008
" It takes a wise man to admit when he doesn't know everything."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by James Watson --- United Kingdom
I chose this one because if you don't know something, learn it and grow from it as life is one big book and we all grow and thrive on challenges and life's learned lessons.
August 20, 2008 " The keys to success in business competition are to make a difference and be unique." Written in 2008 by Joeen B. Buensalido --- Philippines August 18, 2008 " I say to me, first things first. All others will follow me. I am the captain and all are my crew." Manissax --- Submitted by Max Nisthul --- India August 18, 2008 " If you won't do any more than what you're told, you won't be any more than what you are." Written in 2008 by Terry MacDonald --- Idaho August 18, 2008 " If you want to build the finest structure, use the finest tools. If you choose to tear it down, the dullest blades will do." Copyright © 2008 PJ Theis August 13, 2008 " Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths." Peter Drucker August 13, 2008 " A loyal constituency is won when people ... judge the leader to be capable of solving their problems and meeting their needs." John Gardner August 13, 2008 " Those who can command themselves command others." William Hazlitt August 11, 2008 " Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." Robert Half August 11, 2008 " The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." Confucius August 11, 2008 " Management is nothing more than motivating other people." Lee Iacocca August 6, 2008 " That there is a problem is not a problem, but what to do about it." Written in 2008 by David Morake --- Botswana This is to help people to focus on obtaining solutions to problems because the problem, as long as there no solution to it, will remain just that, a problem. Always have a positive attitude and even affirm that "this is not a problem" because in this way you will be opening certain gates of creativity and your mind will not be burdened with the task of having to deal with a PROBLEM. August 6, 2008 " If there is no bullet in the gun, what will the hunter shoot? Ideas don't come from empty brains." Written in 2008 by Sule Emmanuel --- Nigeria August 6, 2008 " If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." John F. Kennedy August 4, 2008 " A stone that cries out when hit with a chisel and hammer can never become a statue." Copyright © 2008 Wispmac Shah August 4, 2008 " If one's purse and pride are not involved, decision making is easy." Copyright © 2008 Ranjit Divakaran This is my own creation based on life's rich experience. August 4, 2008 " Success is like our own shadow. Don't try to catch it. Walk your own way and it follows you. Keep in mind, your shadow follows you only when you walk towards light." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dhiraj Jain --- India
July 30, 2008
" In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions."
Margaret Wheatly
July 30, 2008
" Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Harry S. Truman
July 30, 2008
" People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted."
Jack Welch
July 28, 2008
" There is an essential need for a leader to seek and address what man feels, as man is not only a thinking being but one that feels too."
Written in 2008 by Karabo Senna --- South Africa
July 28, 2008
" When life throws you a curve... hit it!"
Written in 2008 by Steve Bruning --- Iowa
I have been reminded this year how often we let the unexpected things that come along in life dominate us. Take charge of the things that you can.
July 28, 2008
" Adversity is the best teacher."
Written in 2008 by Fred Akama --- Kenya
July 23, 2008
" CHANGE is a thing that can keep you in the success RANGE. Hence change is must..."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pravin Dhikale --- India
July 23, 2008
" The barrier is there for you to overcome and not to hide from."
Written in 2008 by Shaun Setoh --- Singapore
July 23, 2008
" Learning becomes more miraculous and ever present when the human heart is engaged."
Dr. Laurence Martel --- Submitted by Tania Saghir --- Pakistan
July 21, 2008
" The higher we intend to fly, more and more obstacles interrupt our flight."
Written in 2008 by Denise D'souza --- Pakistan
July 21, 2008
" Achievement without belief is rather luck, which can as well perish if it remains belief-free."
Written in 2008 by Tommy Mtloa --- South Africa
I believe, regardless of luck, success can be created through hard work and hard work strengthens belief.
July 21, 2008
" Your vision is impaired only by your own view."
Written in 2008 by Rugmini Menon --- India
I find this quote extremely Inspirational and True.
July 16, 2008
" One's excuses are another's opportunity for achievement."
Written in 2008 by K. Peters --- Indiana
July 16, 2008
" It only takes a ripple to move the ocean."
Copyright © 2004 Rene Ross Garza
July 16, 2008
" Coal can shine only when it is in heat - outside it's dark black."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dhirendra Kumar --- India
Gives motivation in difficulties.
July 14, 2008
" The world judges you by your actions, not your intentions."
Written in 1980 by Floyd Carter --- California
July 14, 2008
" One of the valuable things in life is not how you made a name for yourself but how your name came into the knowledge of those people who matter to you the most. Life is not just making a big name for yourself but it is making your life bigger because you valued all the people around you, whether they have a name or not."
Copyright © 2008 Bai Maleiha B.Candao --- Philippines
I am guided by that fact that all men are created equal. Those who are fortunate have marked a name for themselves in their chosen fields. Those who are less-fortunate have been content by just doing their tasks without people knowing who they are. In my mind, they are the teachers, who work hard in spite of their meager salaries and yet they still manage to produce brilliant students and successful leaders of their respective countries. Whoever assumes the responsibility for a greater majority deserves accolades for they are people whose names may not be in the headlines of newspapers but their names will never be forgotten, for they left a mark in our hearts.
July 14, 2008
" Survival is for the fittest. The fittest are not the strongest, neither the most intelligent, but those that are more adaptable to change."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by W. Johnson Mjaria --- South Africa
The recent changes in the global economy are causing hardship, especially among middle and low income groups. This quote is to encourage people to make drastic changes in their lifestyles in order to cope with these changes.
July 9, 2008
" Success is the combination of hard work with smart work."
Written in 2008 by S.M.Yasar Zahin --- Qatar
July 9, 2008
" Even eagles need a push."
David McNally
July 9, 2008
" Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."
Walter Lippmann
July 7, 2008
" Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw
July 7, 2008
" Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
July 7, 2008
" I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
Benjamin Disraeli
July 2, 2008
" Smile... A silent MIRACLE."
Written in 1998 by Dr. Satheesh Kumar --- India
July 2, 2008
" Success will never lower its standard to accommodate us. We have to raise our standard to achieve it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nilesh Soni --- India
July 2, 2008
" Leadership determines the direction of the company. Organization determines the potential of the company. Personnel determine the success of the company."
John Maxwell
June 30, 2008
" The most successful leader is the one most capable of motivating his people, encouraging to strive harder and become creative, to distinguish themselves."
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
--- Submitted by Matthias Schmelz
June 30, 2008
" Think Big, Be Big."
Written in 2008 by Vineet Sharma --- India
Sympathy is greater than gold.
June 30, 2008
" Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless."
Mary Kay Ash
June 25, 2008
" The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
June 25, 2008
" The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
Harold S. Geneen
June 25, 2008
" No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him."
W. A. Nance
June 23, 2008
" Don't follow the sales, follow the customers; the sales will follow you."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Younus Siraj --- Pakistan
June 23, 2008
" Learning is a never-ending process. It has no boundaries. Follow your heart and pursue learning & updating on all that you are interested in."
Copyright © 2008 CV Varghese
Strongly believe in this because that is the key for survival! It has helped me all through.
June 23, 2008
" Perfection is our goal, not our destiny."
Written in 2008 by Victor Samuel --- India
No one can be perfect on this earth. We are on the way to the perfection… and this is attained only after death... either perfect in hell or in heaven.
June 18, 2008
" The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men of the strength that is already within them."
Swami Vivekananda --- Submitted by Deepu Kumar --- India
Instead of thinking of weakness always, better to focus on strength.
June 18, 2008
" Truth is absolute, no matter what your truth says it is."
Written in 2005 by Rev. Travis J. Hedrick --- Texas
June 18, 2008
" What sculpture is to the piece of the marble, education is to the soul."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Rohit Garg --- India
This quote tells the importance of Education in life. It tells us that the way sculpture is made from a piece of raw marble, same way education is power to our soul.
June 16, 2008
" In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first."
Harry S. Truman
June 16, 2008
" A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant -- and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates."
Peter Drucker
June 16, 2008
" There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers -- after the sale."
Harvey Mackay
June 12, 2008
" You will never get paid more to do what you do until you are willing to do more than what you get paid for."
Written in 2008 by Peter Marsack --- Michigan
A little something I have learned in my travels... and in hiring!
June 12, 2008
" Don't promise anything that you can't deliver."
Written in 2008 by Kunhabdulla V. Paramdath --- UAE
Many people, like employers, leaders, etc., promise many things at the time of a job interview or during an election gathering. Most of these motivational promises are often ignored.
June 12, 2008
" You can lead a horse to water and you CAN make him drink... if you stimulate his thirst. A horse is not going to drink unless he wants to. The key is to make him want to drink. Give the horse a sugar cube; let him taste what it is like. Then take another cube and slowly put it in the water. The horse will drink the water to get to the cube. He now drinks the sugary water. Why? Because you stimulated his thirst for the cube. THAT is the key to getting what you want in business. Give the consumer a taste of what they want and they will follow. They don't know what they always want on their own so, it is up to us to stimulate the thirst for it."
Copyright © 1988 Cynthia Randall
I selected this one because it was what I came up with when my college professor tried to teach us that you couldn't lead a horse to water and make him drink. This was a psychology class. I realized that with proper stimulation, you could get anyone to do anything you want. It is just a matter of time, understanding, patience, and ability. By the way, I got an A grade in the class after I wrote that saying. It was a lesson on how to make classical conditioning into operant conditioning. I have used that saying as a model in business, and with great success.
June 12, 2008
" Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
Og Mandino
June 10, 2008
" Success of a business is often reflected by how well we leverage technology."
Written in 2008 by Rugmini Menon --- India
Very inspirational for a successful business.
June 10, 2008
" One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard
June 10, 2008
" The only way you can succeed is if you have lots of fun doing it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Neha M. --- Indiana
June 10, 2008
" The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself."
Blaine Lee --- Submitted by Sauvik Kar-II
June 4, 2008
" Look at the problems only, and only if, you are going to solve them."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vikas Gupta --- India
June 4, 2008
" An empty drum makes a lot of noise."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Maya Mek --- Ethiopia
June 4, 2008
" Stocks are like children. You have to let them grow for 15 - 20 years and rise up to expectations. If you try short cuts, (F&O) they will tumble down and take a while to recover and stand up."
Written in 2008 by Sunil Tiwari --- India
I love Financial Planning; it's my passion.
June 4, 2008
" The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut."
Lee Iacocca
June 2, 2008
" Pay more for the ability to deal with people than for any other ability under the sun."
Written in 2008 by Shiva Negi --- India
June 2, 2008
" Success is not about being the best and winning the race, but about handling the worst and finishing the race."
Written in 2008 by Tarun Shienh --- India
June 2, 2008
" Failure is a teacher, success, a motivator."
Written in 2008 by Raymond C. Nolan
Our congregation lost a church due to lack of funding and member participation. Rather than accept defeat, our congregation reorganized, had a membership and stewardship drive, and now our present church is thriving. Failure was indeed a teacher, but success motivated us to move forward.
May 28, 2008
" Long days and sleepless nights. If you don't want to pay this price, you had better not stop at the leadership counter."
Pres. Franklin D Roosevelt --- Submitted by Minnie V. --- Canada
Knowing through experience that serving as a leader in any group you can't allow negative behavior to defeat your purpose.
May 28, 2008
" Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nidhi Singhal --- India
May 28, 2008
" Confusion is a mindless paradox of uncertainties."
Written in 2008 by Pritesh Jethwani --- India
May 28, 2008
" Knowledge may be power but to learn is to Empower."
Copyright © 2008 Jamie Volner
You cannot have knowledge without learning first which gives you the empowerment of knowledge over time.
May 21, 2008
" Good leadership is about gaining respect. It is not chaotic; it is rational and guided with insightful decisions."
Written in 2008 by Bai Hyriah Candao --- Philippines
May 21, 2008
" As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Submitted by Sri Ravi --- India
May 21, 2008
" If you say you're going to try to do something and you don't, then in your head it's okay that you failed because you only said you'd try. Take the word "try" out of your vocabulary. It's just an excuse that makes failure acceptable."
Written in 2008 by Devin Crouch --- Arizona
Some of the best advice I've ever given.
May 19, 2008
" Our paradigms determine our successes."
Written in 2007 by Himanshu Vora --- United Kingdom
During a self-development workshop I realized that paradigms determine how we react to life; our reactions/our attitudes, which in turn determine our success.
May 19, 2008
" I don't care how much you know. I don't care where you are from. I don't care about your past. I care about seeing your passion."
Written in 2008 by Kevin Abdulrahman --- New Zealand
May 19, 2008
" If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day."
Mahatma Gandhi --- Submitted by Deepu Kumar --- India
May 14, 2008
" Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders."
Warren Bennis
May 14, 2008
" I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
Charles Schwab
May 14, 2008
" Relying on a safe, secure job is the highest risk anyone can take."
Robert T. Kiyosaki --- Submitted by Matthias Schmelz --- Portugal
May 12, 2008
" The road to success is better traveled, if one packs for the journey."
Written in 2001 by Faruk Okcetin --- North Carolina
May 12, 2008
" If we work together, we can accomplish great things."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Tchernavia Clack --- Georgia
May 12, 2008
" Productive thoughts reside in the realm of a peaceful mind."
Written in 2008 by Mohammed Onotu --- Nigeria
May 7, 2008
" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nikhil Unnikrishnan K. --- India
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
May 7, 2008
" To acquire knowledge, one most study but to acquire wisdom one most observe."
Marilyn Vos Savant --- Submitted by Hina Shehzad --- UAE
May 7, 2008
" The way you see them is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is the way they often become."
Zig Ziglar --- Submitted by Staci D. --- Tennessee
I work in a welfare office and have to remind myself of this daily. It is a powerful reminder to not see everyone as a lump of coal but instead as a diamond in the rough.
May 5, 2008
" A leader is one who leads but also listens. The individuals, who you are leading, are in the front lines and they sometimes know better than you what to do. Always listen!"
Copyright © 2008 Marion Licchiello
May 5, 2008
" Life may not always be what you wish but what you demand. Great men forge ahead in spite of difficult circumstances. To be in great demand, you need to encounter great circumstances that will reveal your wish at the end."
Written in 2008 by Bassey Ndon --- Nigeria
May 5, 2008
" Teamwork and Communication are keys toward business success; both are important entities for reaching common goals or success. Teamwork, although it appears to be an art, is actually a requirement for company success!"
Copyright © 2008 Antonio Talbert
Teamwork and Communication isn't a choice in business, it's a must!
April 30, 2008
" Most of the time before someone becomes an example, he is alone, thinking and trying."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Harsh Kumar --- India
April 30, 2008
" Our thoughts become real, when we are deep rooted in the spirit of our spirit."
Written in 2007 by Vincent Lucky --- Nigeria
April 30, 2008
" You can live how you will, but remember, your will dictates how you live."
Written in 2008 by Brian Cahoon --- California
April 28, 2008
" There are two kinds of people in the world. There are people that complain about nothing ever changing and there are those that notice a need and affect the changes necessary! What do you want to be?"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Wayne Robertson USMC
I doubt I am the first person to use those words but it is something that I tell people on a daily basis. I think it is something that more people in the world need to hear. A lot of people say I am a motivating person but it takes more than strapping on a smile and saying it's going to be ok. I strongly believe that if something is messed up you can either live with it or do something about it.
April 28, 2008
" Leaders are like Eagles. They don't flock, you find them one at a time."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.H. --- Georgia
Saying this helps me be the leader that I am.
April 28, 2008
" Leadership is not about exercising authority over people or by winning over people, but it is the ability to bind a group together, persuading and motivating them to seek defined objectives enthusiastically."
Written in 2008 by George B. Ferdinand --- India
April 23, 2008
" You don't declare yourself a somebody, your actions and deeds will."
Written in 2001 by Bai Maleiha Candao --- Philippines
I want to stress that the real essence of leadership doesn't come from lip service but from sincere actions and deeds.
April 23, 2008
" Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage; they force us to think."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nikhil Unnikrishnan --- India
April 23, 2008
" Creative outcomes often come by building upon a mistake."
Copyright © 2008 Darrell Boswell
April 21, 2008
" Love your work. If you put love into your work, everything follows."
Written in 2008 by Ybonette Gonzales --- Philippines
April 21, 2008
" Right is always right. You can never find any wrong in doing right. Today, make the choice to do right; it's the right thing to do!"
Copyright © 2008 Antonio Talbert
No matter what or what the cost, do the right thing.
April 21, 2008
" No amount of success stops or limits innovation."
Written in 2008 by Mohammed Onotu --- Nigeria
April 16, 2008
" The secret to winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11."
Knute Rockne
April 16, 2008
" Hell, there are no rules here --- we're trying to accomplish something."
Thomas A. Edison
April 16, 2008
" The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."
John Maxwell
April 14, 2008
" A good coach loves the sport of gymnastics but a great coach loves their gymnasts more."
Copyright © 2002 Sheilamariee L. Wells
The above is my reply when I am asked,"How do you get them to focus and trust you as a coach?" I wanted to share to help all gymnastics coaches and kids because it's a tough sport and anything passed on to help is my goal.
April 14, 2008
" To place blame only adds fire to the flame."
Written in 2008 by Joyce C. Lock
April 14, 2008
" I am an excellent speaker, if you are at least a good listener."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Malik Charania --- India
Words of a good speaker can also go unnoticed if one is not willing to listen to them carefully. This is from personal experience and I was a listener during that episode.
April 9, 2008
" If you are the best at something, it is your sole purpose in life to make others better - thus you will never live without a challenge."
Copyright © 1990 Toni Kusiak
I thought of this after hearing about one of our astronauts who went to the moon and came back to earth and wondered what can I now do after doing that? I also believe he had a breakdown. I thought no matter what you do there is always something else you can accomplish, if not personally then by teaching others to be better.
April 9, 2008
" Ideas won't work until you do."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ybonette Gonzales --- Philippines
April 9, 2008
" Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
Anthony Robbins
April 7, 2008
" There will always be people around us who will deplete our energy painstakingly...your role is to recharge yourself and your loves ones positively."
Written in 2008 by Bai Maleiha B. Candao --- Philippines
This is my personal principle in life. When everything else around us is negative, we must STAND UP TO BE POSITIVE.
April 7, 2008
" Commitment means staying consistent rather than being fast."
Written in 2008 by Sandeep Kumar --- United Arab Emirates
April 7, 2008
" Sentimentality is a false and distracting emotion. To dwell on the past is to place value and importance on what was not necessarily as you choose to remember. To live entirely for the future is to disregard what needs to be addressed today. Here and now is what matters: here and now is the only truth."
Written in 2008 by Hannah Leach --- United Kingdom
This is based on some very good advice once given: It's when you think too much about the past and future that you become overwhelmed and depressed. Living for today is the only way.
April 2, 2008
" Children are like a pot of flowers. If you'll give them proper attention, they'll grow up properly; but if you give them lack of attention or extreme care, they'll be destroyed."
Written in 2006 by Munir Moosa Sewani --- Pakistan
April 2, 2008
" Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field - if you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."
Al Lopez
April 2, 2008
" You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip."
Bud Wilkinson
March 31, 2008
" The art of leadership is not in your constant fight to lead but it's in the ability to convince others to go where no one else has taken them at their own free will."
Written in 2008 by Cheney Joseph --- Grenada
The inspiration of Ianthe Harris has given me the urge to do likewise.
March 31, 2008
" Using your employees and offices as variables, setup your organization as though it were a computer program and you can rest assured that with or without (your) supervision, ALL will always be WELL."
Written in 2008 by Obinna Cedric Agugua
This is something I decided to tell my boss when it became obvious that he didn't believe he could get the best out of his employees without someone always being there to boss them around. I believed it was all his fault because the way he ran the company did not allow for order and sequence and specialization.
March 31, 2008
" Don't bother just to better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner
March 26, 2008
" To read is to empower. To empower is to write. To write is to influence. To influence is to change. To change is to live."
Jane Evershed --- Submitted by Boitumelo Mokoena --- South Africa
This, l believe, is what every leader ought to do, so let's do it with passion!!
March 26, 2008
" If you follow, all throughout your life, you will only go as far as the person you're following."
Written in 2008 by James Rosario --- Florida
I thought this quote up when I examined my philosophy of life. I believe to make a difference in your life and in someone else's life it is important to be and act like a leader. Following is important because that is how you learn but don't get stuck there and never move on to the leadership step.
March 26, 2008
" You do not lead by hitting people over the head- that's assault, not leadership."
Dwight D Eisenhower
March 24, 2008
" My heroes are those who I don't know but would like to think exist, to inspire me to achieve more than what I think I am capable of doing."
Copyright © 2008 Kyle Miller
March 24, 2008
" It's hard to make a difference, but it's definitely worth the effort."
Written in 2008 by Avinash R. Pai --- United Arab Emirates
This is connected to everyone's life... sooner or later every person will get this thought crossing his mind.
March 24, 2008
" Customer Service does not come from a manual.... it comes from the heart."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Scott Humbert --- Pennsylvania
March 19, 2008
" If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them."
Harvey MacKay
March 19, 2008
" Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team, to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage."
Bart Starr
March 19, 2008
" There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its workforce and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees."
Ricardo Sempler
March 17, 2008
" In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two."
Lee Iacocca
March 17, 2008
If you want to have success in your life you have to adopt three basic things:
Be sure that you have a vision to achieve
You have the mental strength to cross the hurdles in your way to success
The most important one - you should believe that you are the winner.
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sajid Malik --- Pakistan
March 17, 2008
" A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities."
Jules Ormont
March 12, 2008
" You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
March 12, 2008
" I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-class manager running a first-rate business."
Jack E. Reichert
March 12, 2008
" Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."
John W. Gardner
March 10, 2008
" Dear Boss, Please go ahead. You have to achieve our concern, our aim. Your staff is always with you."
Written in 2007 by Anwar Sadat --- India
I wrote this when my boss was not confident that his staff was capable enough to carry out the business mission.
March 10, 2008
" We should not expect others to be like us, because life becomes really boring when we have to live with our own shadows. We should learn to respect the uniqueness in every human."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sushma Ravikiran --- India
March 10, 2008
" When you point at others with your index finger, the rest of your fingers point back at you. Always analyze yourself before blaming others."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vipin C. --- India
March 5, 2008
" People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives."
Theodore Roosevelt
March 5, 2008
" A man is best defined by his ability to overcome obstacles. He's then cultured by his failures and finds harvest within his feats."
Copyright © 2001 Shawn Allen
March 5, 2008
" A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
Nelson Mandela
March 3, 2008
" Change is not your enemy; fear is your enemy."
Written in 2008 by Scott Dever --- Illinois
March 3, 2008
" Philosophy may earn you the tag of an intellectual but sincerity will actually make you one."
Written in 2007 by Asim Chowdhury --- India
It depicts the state of affairs around the world today. Everyone attempts to position himself/herself as an intellectual. Very few embrace sincerity.
March 3, 2008
" Be eager to listen, but be careful how you respond."
My Mother --- Submitted by Funke Adekola --- England
February 27, 2008
" I had the perfect dream last night... everyone pitched in."
Written in 2008 by A.B. Smith --- Michigan
I woke one morning with this thought from a dream I had.
February 27, 2008
" Nothing is easier than fault-finding; no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character are required to set up a grumbling business."
Robert West
February 27, 2008
" Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sushma Ravikiran --- India
February 25, 2008
" You can buy someone's time, you can buy someone's physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm; you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things."
Clarence Francis
February 25, 2008
" A boss is a person who needs someone to help them. You are actually the most important person in their business life. Without you, they would have to do everything themselves. Think about that the next time you are not feeling too good about work. You are helping someone no matter what job you are in."
Copyright © 2008 Marion Licchiello
February 25, 2008
" You don't get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it."
Lou Gehrig
February 20, 2008
" People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."
W. Somerset Maugham
February 20, 2008
" Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
Andrew Carnegie
February 20, 2008
" Big jobs usually go to the people who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 18, 2008
" Always Remember: Your reputation walks into the room before you do."
Copyright © 2007 Steven R. Jaffe, DC
February 18, 2008
" Each one of us has our own ideas, theories and plans for our community. But it takes us as a whole; envisioning, planning, implementing these new roadways into our future for success to happen."
Copyright © 2008 Lynnetta M. Johnson
February 18, 2008
" Small men always talk about problems, great men always talk about solutions and business geniuses find opportunities in these problems."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vishal Sharma --- India
February 13, 2008
" Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity."
Vince Lombardi
February 13, 2008
" The companies that survive longest are the ones that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul."
Charles Handy
February 13, 2008
" A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others."
Norman Shidle
February 11, 2008
" Peace comes not from conflict in our mind, but from the ability to adjust to it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jithu Menon --- India
In business, there will be ups & downs. This quote helps me to remain calm.
February 11, 2008
" Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents."
Kenneth Blanchard
February 11, 2008
" A great man is always willing to be little."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 6, 2008
" If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
Margaret Thatcher --- Submitted by Deepti Pillai --- India
February 6, 2008
" I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is."
Donald Trump
February 6, 2008
" Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment."
Dr. Stephen Covey
February 4, 2008
" The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Walter Lippman
February 4, 2008
" Each thought wants to be transmitted!"
Alex Mero --- Submitted by Anthony Veron --- Spain
Quote from the novel: The Legend
February 4, 2008
" High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
Charles Kettering
January 30, 2008
" Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how you will handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic."
Max Gunther --- Submitted by Jennifer P. --- Oklahoma
From "The Zurich Axioms"
January 30, 2008
" Objectives are not objectives if there are no obstacles in your way."
Written in 2008 by Nikhil Prasanth Sreenivasan --- India
January 30, 2008
" Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."
Thomas J. Watson
January 28, 2008
" Managers fight fires... Leaders light fires."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Todd James --- Indiana
I was teaching a class on leadership and was trying to clearly explain the difference between a manager and a leader, at the tactical level.
January 28, 2008
" You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day."
Jeffrey Gitomer
January 28, 2008
" Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."
Theodore Levitt
January 23, 2008
" Initiative and change are first cousins to progress."
Written in 2008 by E. Sydney Flax --- Virgin Islands
January 23, 2008
" Always think uniquely, so that you can do unique things."
Written in 2008 by A. Balaji --- India
January 23, 2008
" People don't resist change. They resist being changed!"
Peter Senge
January 21, 2008
" Those who respond positively and take responsibility, rather than blame others or be indifferent, are the ones who grow as leaders. Consequently, they develop the foundation for great positive responses, great achievement, and great success in leadership."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anu G. --- India
I was reading an article "Leadership and Do You have it in You". I came across these lines and found them true so felt like sharing the same.
January 21, 2008
" If you would be a leader, you must lead your own generation, not the next one."
Woodrow Wilson
January 21, 2008
" If you can command yourself, you can command the world."
Chinese Proverb
January 16, 2008
" Compulsive perfectionism polishes the past when bold new skills are needed to unlock future."
Dag Hammarskjöld
January 16, 2008
" In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."
Rupert Murdoch
January 16, 2008
" Reinforce what you want to see repeated: What gets rewarded gets done."
Brian Tracy
January 14, 2008
" Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character."
Vince Lombardi
January 14, 2008
" You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
Abraham Lincoln
January 14, 2008
" I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."
Stephen R. Covey
January 9, 2008
" For all things are subject to time, which is the ruler of all things created and to be imagined."
Written in 2007 by Craig Passley --- Jamaica
To challenge and influence the mental capacity of others, for them to be intellectually oriented in the correct frame of mind, so as to bring about a positive revolution.
January 9, 2008
" It takes a room full of important people to cause an argument and yet a nation of innocent people to put it right."
Written in 2007 by Colin Ager --- United Kingdom
It's something I like that in a way is true.
January 9, 2008
" Lead the followers, don't follow the leaders."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by K. Nagra --- United Kingdom
This quote always makes me smile because one day (soon), I hope to start my own business. It reinforces that I'm doing the right thing by "taking the plunge", so to speak.
January 7, 2008
" Greatness comes at a price. In your pursuit for greatness, make sure that you have character enough to sustain it."
Written in 2007 by Jared Naidoo --- South Africa
January 7, 2008
" True creativity comes when you find the third, fourth and fifth right answer."
Copyright © 2007 Darrell Boswell
January 7, 2008
Entrepreneurs vs. Team Building:
" You can travel fastest alone, but you will travel farther in a group."
Copyright © 2006 John W. Ackerman
For years I felt that to be successful you needed to stay away from committees and boards and "Do it my way". One day I discovered that even with all the books on how to make a computer, I could not make one by myself. It took thousands of people adding input for all the tools and parts to come together to make the computer a reality. If you wish to be financially successful within a limited lifetime, you need a talented and diversified group to assist you. Check out Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Warren Buffet.
December 19, 2007
" Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you."
Written in 2007 by Sandeep Kumar --- Dubai
December 19, 2007
" People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led."
H. Ross Perot
December 19, 2007
" Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
Warren G. Bennis
December 17, 2007
" We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
Albert Einstein --- Submitted by Mike Scullin --- New York
Use your head, but listen to your heart as well.
December 17, 2007
" Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
Jesse Jackson
December 17, 2007
" Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
Immanuel Kant
December 12, 2007
" Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out of it unless the other party fails to deliver as promised. Your handshake is your bond. As far as I'm concerned, a handshake is worth more than a signed contract. As an entrepreneur, a reputation for integrity is your most valuable commodity. If you try to put something over on someone, it will come back to haunt you."
Victor Kiam
December 12, 2007
" Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education."
B.C. Forbes
December 12, 2007
" A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone."
Robert Kiyosaki
December 10, 2007
" To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful."
Edward R. Murrow
December 10, 2007
" You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits."
Denis Waitley
December 10, 2007
" Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
Jack Welch
December 5, 2007
" The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."
Robert Frost
December 5, 2007
" To meet the demands of the fast changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we hated it in the past."
Tom Peters
December 5, 2007
" Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
Paul Hawken
December 3, 2007
" Comprehension without emotional attachment to the content is tantamount to an invaluable fake coin."
Written in 2007 by Ravi Kumar Keenoo --- Mauritius
I spent hours to work on this quote based on comprehension or in the broader sense, communication. As a management student at the University of Mauritius, I study business communication and the simplest summary of this module resulted in this quote. It is short but sharp.
December 3, 2007
" Obstacles today are achievements of tomorrows."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by L.N. --- California
December 3, 2007
" There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
William Hazlitt
November 28, 2007
" Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 28, 2007
" One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
Arnold Glasgow
November 28, 2007
" The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
Ken Blanchard
November 26, 2007
" Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous."
Bill Bradley
November 26, 2007
" Arrogance is the twin brother of ignorance."
Written in 2007 by Ranjit Divakaran --- India
November 26, 2007
" Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time."
Ross Perot
November 26, 2007
" Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
Sam Walton
November 21, 2007
" Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
Harold Sydney Geneen
November 21, 2007
" Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
Stephen R. Covey
November 21, 2007
" It's important to talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, "God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. The reason they're following you is not because you're providing some mysterious leadership. It's because you're following them."
Lee Iacocca
November 19, 2007
" A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
November 19, 2007
" Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it."
Plato
November 19, 2007
" If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them."
Jack Welch
November 14, 2007
" Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow."
Vince Lombardi
November 14, 2007
" The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."
Orison Swett Marden
November 14, 2007
" One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development."
Brian Tracy
November 12, 2007
" Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them."
Lao Tzu
November 12, 2007
" Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
Peter Drucker
November 12, 2007
" Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference."
Ken Blanchard
November 7, 2007
" Genuine observation is better than meaningless participation."
Written in 2007 by Donna Daritan
People tend to waste their life by being busy in something so meaningless, though sometimes, meaning can be drawn from observation and contemplation.
November 7, 2007
" The only thing in life more profound than the Golden Rule is keeping it."
Written in 2006 by Ron Seim --- California
November 7, 2007
" If you are the only one complaining, you may be the problem."
Written in 2007 by Barry K. Jackson --- Tennessee
November 5, 2007
" Time is a great teacher of wise man."
Written in 2007 by Karabo Senna --- South Africa
I think time should be of great value, use it wisely and you shall be living.
November 5, 2007
" Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."
Written in 2007 by Ashwin Ganesh --- India
November 5, 2007
" One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
John Kenneth Galbraith
October 31, 2007
" The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."
Gail Sheehy
October 31, 2007
" The first step to leadership is servanthood."
John Maxwell
October 31, 2007
" Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."
Stephen Covey
October 29, 2007
" Exploration before explanation. If you cannot explore it, you cannot explain it."
Written in 2007 by Abiodun Adegbite --- Nigeria
There is need for research. Until we research and are personally informed, we cannot impart information to others.
October 29, 2007
" The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Theodore Roosevelt
October 29, 2007
" If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack."
Winston Churchill
October 24, 2007
" The first and last task of a leader is to keep hope alive."
John W. Gardner
October 24, 2007
" Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
Clarence Thomas
October 24, 2007
" Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
Peter F. Drucker
October 22, 2007
" Hard work is only noticed by hard workers, laziness is noticed by all."
Written in 2007 by Tanner Franklin
I had a lazy boss. I always worked my butt off but he never noticed it. It was the guy that worked under me that told me I was a hard worker; he also was a hard worker so it all just made sense.
October 22, 2007
" When tackling a problem wipe the board clean. Prior learning and assumptions can subvert the process."
John McKee --- Submitted by Anu G. --- India
So true!!! October 22, 2007
" Be a leader who is well respected rather than a leader who is well liked because well respected leaders will do the right things for the people, and the people will love you for the things that you do for them."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Peter Kim --- Arizona
October 17, 2007
" Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John F. Kennedy
October 17, 2007
" What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence, The only consequence is what we do."
John Ruskin
October 17, 2007
" Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always high priority in whatever I was doing."
General Chuck Yeager
October 15, 2007
" He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand, walk and run."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jamal Muattar --- Pakistan
October 15, 2007
" I'd rather have to work seven days a week than to have to look for work seven days a week."
Written in 2007 by Paul Doss --- Missouri
I told this to a manager that works for me when he was venting about the hours he was working.
October 15, 2007
" We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here."
Tom Hopkins
October 10, 2007
" The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
Lee Iacocca
October 10, 2007
" The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
Harvey S. Firestone
October 10, 2007
" Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct."
Dale Carnegie
October 8, 2007
" It is not the quantity of mistakes that matter in life but the quality of learning you derived from it."
Written in 2007 by Bai Maleiha Candao --- Philippines
This is my life quote. It has guided me every time I encountered lapses in my judgment that led to my wrong choices and decisions.
October 8, 2007
" If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by."
Akio Morita
October 8, 2007
" The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things ... it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future."
Steve Forbes
October 3, 2007
" Tell me your principles, not your opinions."
Written in 2007 by Scott Smigler --- Massachusetts
October 3, 2007
" The positive and negative aspects of habit play a fundamental role in man's growth and development as well as his corruption and decadence."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anzar Hasan --- Texas
October 3, 2007
" Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
October 1, 2007
" Hard work and dedication will turn expectations into a realization."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Cynthia Anderson --- Florida
Nothing comes easy. You just have to get up and keep going. When adversity comes, just know that if you keep working hard to get what you want that eventually you will have it. Know that blessings come in the form of adversity. The bigger the adversity you deal with, the bigger the blessings you will receive. Keep your eyes on the horizon; don't look away from your dreams, be persistent, and I will see you at the top!
October 1, 2007
" Listening is the key to solving problems, not speaking out without any understanding. It's evident since God gave us two ears and one mouth; we must listen twice as much as we speak."
Written in 2007 by Micheal Martinez --- Texas
October 1, 2007
" I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title."
Anwar Sadat
September 26, 2007
" Losers give excuses of why they lost; winners tell how they won. Are you the one that gives excuses?"
Copyright © 2003 Woody Lee
I was coaching my daughters softball team(15U) and wanted to motivate them so they would not keep giving me excuses of why they could not do something.
September 26, 2007
" To get unusual results you must do unusual things."
Written in 2007 by Scott Smigler --- Massachusetts
September 26, 2007
" Vision dictates Mission which determines Strategy, which surfaces Goals that frame Objectives, which in turn drives the Tactics that tell an organization what Resources, Infrastructure and Processes are needed to support a certainty of execution."
Copyright © 1988 Mike Myatt
September 24, 2007
" It is very easy to find a scapegoat in every project, but easier to solve the problem by taking responsibilities and working on them; that is the difference between being a manager and a supervisor."
Written in 2007 by Vivek Verma --- India
September 24, 2007
If I need positive thoughts,
I think about my best student.
If I need motivation,
I think about my worst.
If I need a laugh,
I have a story for every day of the week.
If I need to understand,
I think about my student without a place to call home.
If I need to believe,
I think about the twinkle in their eyes when they first read.
Whatever "I need", my students give me.
I owe it to them to return the favor.
Copyright © 2007 Amy Sinness
September 24, 2007
" Management without observance is a threat to an organization. Observing is simple but a really giant power of a good leader."
Written in 2007 by Ravi Kumar Keenoo --- Mauritius
Observing proves to be the ignored power of an organization.
September 19, 2007
" Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."
Vince Lombardi
September 19, 2007
" You're only as good as the people you hire."
Ray Kroc
September 19, 2007
" If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
Henry Ford
September 17, 2007
" Life is made up of Imagination, Perception, Reality and Belief. Validate your perception and convert your imagination to dreams and goals and believe in the reality of possibility."
Written in 2007 by Shamsud Ahmed --- India
I believe in the possibility of things and have been working with a very highly motivated team and passing this message every day through stories, poems and motivational speeches. Recently we started a campaign, " What you want to be written on your gravestone."
September 17, 2007
" Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
Jack Welch
September 17, 2007
" A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
Jim Rohn
September 12, 2007
" A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Varun Raj --- India
September 12, 2007
" A good soldier obeys without question, a good officer commands without doubt."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Angela N. --- Australia
September 12, 2007
" Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."
Warren Bennis
September 10, 2007
" To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business life."
Samuel Johnson
September 10, 2007
" So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don't just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
Lee Iacocca
September 10, 2007
" One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
Arnold Glasow
September 5, 2007
" Celebrate your victories, but learn from your failures."
Copyright © 1988 Michael B. Zapp
Teaching kids how to get pass tough training moments. It helps to avoid frustration.
September 5, 2007
" We are strong when we think that we are strong, we lead when we think that we are leading, we are ahead when we think we are ahead, yet, we will fail when we think we can't."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kamyghebat Kamz --- Malaysia
September 5, 2007
" Lead, do not manage...practice what you preach...live the life you are teaching about...it's the only way others will truly believe and true belief becomes reality."
Copyright © 2007 Marion Licchiello
August 29, 2007
" True leadership is the weapon of every organization. Without it, prominent will be a word only to dream about."
Written in 2007 Bymulelu Philelo Philimon --- South Africa
August 29, 2007
" Look for the answer alongside the problem - that's often where it hides."
Jeff Davidson --- Submitted by J.S. --- North Carolina
August 29, 2007
" Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among collegues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential."
Warren Bennis
August 27, 2007
" Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated."
Dag Hammarskjöld
August 27, 2007
" Processes don't do work, people do."
John Seely Brown
August 27, 2007
" Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
Sam Walton
August 22, 2007
" If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe."
Abraham Lincoln --- Submitted by David Blay Mensah --- Ghana
August 22, 2007
" When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are."
R. H. Grant
August 22, 2007
" Without great employees you can never have great customer service."
Richard F. Gerson
August 20, 2007
" A testimony is not an outline of your success but about all the struggles and failures you had go to through to get there."
Copyright © 2007 Moises Mendoza
I was at a convention last weekend and all the speakers spoke about was what they went through to be successful. People can care less if you own 20 different cars or if you own your own private jet. But if they find something they can relate with you, such as different struggles and failures, it gives people hope and belief that they can do it too.
August 20, 2007
" It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -not people, to focus your energies on answers -not excuses."
William Arthur Ward --- Submitted by M. Sundhari --- Malaysia
August 20, 2007
" It has been said that success only shows up when determination does…but it must be powered by a non-negotiable decision."
Doug Firebaugh
August 15, 2007
" All things being equal, we will work harder and more effectively for people we like. And we will like them in direct proportion to how they make us feel."
Dr. Robert Cooper
August 15, 2007
" Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top."
J.C. Penney
August 15, 2007
" Leaders succeed only when they embody and express, for better or worse, values rooted in the social character of group, class, or nation."
Michael Maccoby
August 13, 2007
" Quality is never an accident. It is the result of planning, teamwork and commitment to excellence."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anupama Reddy --- India
August 13, 2007
" Bad is never better, until worse takes place. Good is not enough, where excellent is required."
Written in 2007 by Solly M. Phala --- South Africa
August 13, 2007
" Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you."
Eddie Robinson
August 8, 2007
" There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."
Lee Iacocca
August 8, 2007
" You may be the boss, but you're only as good as the people who work for you."
Rear Admiral William Leahy
August 8, 2007
" An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
Jack Welch
August 6, 2007
" Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
Brian Tracy --- Submitted by Bruno Dsouza --- Mumbai, India
Remember impossible is nothing.
August 6, 2007
" Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game."
Tony Alessandra
August 6, 2007
" I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been."
Sam Walton
August 1, 2007
" No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective."
Peter Drucker
August 1, 2007
" If you want to increase your success rate, increase your failure rate."
Thomas Watson, Sr. --- Submitted by Mike Scullin --- New York
Thomas Watson, Sr. was the former IBM Chairman
August 1, 2007
" Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."
Henry R. Luce
July 30, 2007
" The key to victory is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to victory."
L. M. Bujold --- Submitted by Mike Scullin --- New York
This seemed to me to be the zen essence of making choices. Things work a certain way when left to themselves. If you can see that way, you are free to follow any path that leads there.
July 30, 2007
" One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them."
Dean Rusk
July 30, 2007
" Leaders are cultivated; it is like growing oranges in the desert!"
Written in 2007 by Christiane M. Arevalo
I thought of this quote when speaking with my sister about leadership. Are leaders born or made?
July 25, 2007
" Thinking is the capital; Enterprise is the way; Hard work is the solution."
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam --- Submitted by Ravichandran Bellie --- India
The authour Dr. Abdul Kalam, who rose to become the President of India, basically hailed from a poor family. He himself examplified for his quote and he is a towering example to show that if one's thinking is in the right way, nothing can stop him from achieving laurels in his life.
July 25, 2007
" Sometimes in life, we are smarter for questioning our answers than we are for answering our questions."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by C.S. --- Oregon
July 25, 2007
" It is better to look for what works before you focus on what's broken."
C.W. Metcalf
July 23, 2007
" A leader struggles daily to motivate, innovate and maximize performance."
Copyright © 2006 Ligia Kohnke
July 23, 2007
" Unless and until the situation comes, no one ever knows his or her real capability."
Written in 2006 by Veerendra Potla ---India
The Quote is my brainchild and from my experiences I have seen so far. The reason for selecting this one: I realized my capability only when the Situation & hardships came across. Before this, I used to be very naive & cynical.
July 23, 2007
" Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy."
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
July 18, 2007
" Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors."
B.C. Forbes
July 18, 2007
" There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience."
Henry Ward Beecher
July 18, 2007
" If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
July 16, 2007
" Not everything I do bears results but those that do, are because I did."
Copyright © 2007 Joyal Mehta
July 16, 2007
" If you do something wrong, don't just wish it never happened. Take action. Do whatever you can to make things right, even if things don't turn out like you hope, no regrets. Live with the satisfaction that you did everything in your power to make it right."
Copyright © 2007Jessica Looper
I've been writing a book that I one day want to have published. It's kind of like a survival guide for teens and the above quote is one of the most important ones I've written so far.
July 16, 2007
" Leadership is not a right; it's a great responsibility."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anupama Reddy --- India
July 11, 2007
" Success does not mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle."
Written in 2007 by Deepk S. Nagi --- India
July 11, 2007
" Sometimes in life we are smarter for questioning our answers than we are for answering our questions."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by C.S. --- Oregon
July 11, 2007
" Delegation is the passing on of actions, not the passing on of responsibility."
Eric Edmeades --- Submitted by Petra Chase --- South Africa
Said during a keynote address in London, England in January 2005
July 9, 2007
" The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw --- Submitted by Mike Scullin --- New York
I think the world needs some percentage of unreasonable people, and I like to encourage them.
July 9, 2007
" Brighter tomorrows are made by today's decisions."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ragireddy Anupama --- A.P., India
July 9, 2007
" Productivity begins when you go beyond your feelings and discipline your mind and body."
Copyright © 2007 Gessy Nixon
I had to apply in my life to get work done.
July 2, 2007
" There's a difference between a humble leader and an insecure person. A humble leader says, 'I'm not worthy of this,' while an insecure person says, 'I can't do this.'"
Written in 2007 by R.C. --- Tennessee
July 2, 2007
" A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. He is as of the sea or an air in the feather which every breeze blows here and there."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Swathi D. --- India
July 2, 2007
" Commitment is the difference between people who "have potential" and people who have results."
Copyright © 2007 Demond L. Jackson
This is the first 100 % original quote I came up with and I want to share it with others.
June 27, 2007
" Dog gives birth to dogs and not goats; cat gives birth to cats: The quality of a Leader is directly equivalent to the quality of his followers. Show me a passionate follower of a vision and I'll show you a passionate Leader."
Copyright © 2007 Andrew Effiong
June 27, 2007
" The right man is the one who seizes the moment."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
June 27, 2007
" Our core values are our foundation."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pravin Chamlikar --- India
June 25, 2007
" I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hands. If you hold it too tightly, you crush it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it."
Tommy Lasorda
June 25, 2007
" Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off."
Mary Ann Allison
June 25, 2007
" Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides - what a person is (character) and what a person does (competence)."
Stephen Covey
June 20, 2007
" Only positive consequences encourage good future performances."
Kenneth H. Blanchard
June 20, 2007
" A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality."
Frank Lloyd Wright
June 20, 2007
" It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone… The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment."
W. Edwards Deming
June 18, 2007
" The brightest and most valuable diamond started life as just a lump of carbon."
Peter Dilger --- Submitted by John Green --- England
It very aptly describes the potential we often fail to see in the people we work with, educate or meet in our daily lives.
June 18, 2007
" However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
Winston Churchill --- Submitted by Mike Scullin --- New York
The Bulldog said many worthwhile things, being a prolific talker, but this reminder to keep perspective whenever possible, while less humorous than some of his sayings, and less caustic than others, seems to have lasting value.
June 18, 2007
" A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
Ralph Lauren
June 13, 2007
" To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
Douglas Noel Adams
June 13, 2007
" Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach."
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
June 13, 2007
" Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice."
Max DePree
June 11, 2007
" Vision without Execution is Hallucination."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J. Woods --- California
June 11, 2007
" No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
George Hean Nathan
June 11, 2007
" Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization."
Peter F. Drucker
June 6, 2007
" Every child can be reached; you just have to stretch far enough."
Copyright © 2006 Robyn Sorrell
I wrote it for my quote to use in the classroom.
June 6, 2007
" The more angles from which you attack a problem, the faster it will become dust beneath your feet."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anantha G. --- India
June 6, 2007
" Responsibility is Your ability to respond to necessity."
Copyright © 2007 Andrew Effiong
June 4, 2007
" In business as in life, one has no right to expect success or reward of any kind, unless one has accepted the obligation to invest all available resources in achieving that task."
Copyright © 2007 Christos S. Efessiou
I have used this quote for years to explain to employees and co-workers the importance of "spen ding" to "make".
June 4, 2007
" To go beyond what is known to be possible, you must strive to attain what is thought to be impossible."
Anthony Lynn Nichols --- Submitted by Bill Davidson --- Utah
June 4, 2007
" Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
John D. Rockefeller
May 30, 2007
" Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."
David Ogilvy
May 30, 2007
" Speak with the purpose of resolving issues, rather than proving you are right."
Abe Wagner
May 30, 2007
" You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
Rupert Murdoch
May 23, 2007
" The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons."
Max DePree
May 23, 2007
" The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."
Peter Drucker
May 23, 2007
" Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader."
General George S. Patton, Jr.
May 21, 2007
" A great organization does not have time to take short cuts!"
Copyright © 2007 Gerry O'Hanlon
So much time can be lost when a job is not thought through and short cuts are taken.
May 21, 2007
" Great promise keepers never make too many promises."
Munene Nyaga --- Submitted by Eric Nyaga --- Kenya
My country has seen many general elections and we are preparing for another one at the end of this year. Our politicians have over the years made numerous pledges to the citizens and doing little to fulfill them. This problem cuts across the globe. It's a lesson to leaders for every race, language and creed; make only as many promises as you are ready to keep.
May 21, 2007
" People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."
John C. Maxwell
May 16, 2007
" People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
Mary Kay Ash
May 16, 2007
" The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."
Amos Parrish
May 16, 2007
" Nothing limits achievement like small thinking. Nothing equals possibilities like unleashed thinking."
William Arthur Ward
May 14, 2007
A Great Leader raises leaders
A Good Leader raises followers
A Bad Leader raises members
Where's your place?
Sola Olubode --- Submitted by Andrew Effiong --- Nigeria
It catches my attention.
May 14, 2007
" Correction does work, but encouragement works wonders."
Copyright © 2007 Kay Gramm
May 14, 2007
" In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
John Ruskin
May 9, 2007
" If you are a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things they never thought they were capable of."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by S.W. --- Ohio
May 9, 2007
" The art of communication is the language of leadership."
James Humes
May 9, 2007
" Power wielders may treat people as things. Leaders may not."
James MacGregor Burns
May 2, 2007
" Leadership is about realizing that people whom you lead need to be right, for you to be right."
Written in 2007 by Mitesh Vageriya --- India
May 2, 2007
" In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people.. they no longer can lead solely based on positional power."
Ken Blanchard
May 2, 2007
" It is the role and responsibility of every person to make their community a better place; it is never someone else's job."
Copyright © 2006 Mickie Taylor
April 30, 2007
" A teacher is just like the light of a watchtower that guides us through to the right path."
Written in 2007 by Ashish D., Age 16 --- India
April 30, 2007
" When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."
Arland Gilbert
April 30, 2007
" Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt."
R. I. Rees
April 25, 2007
" Education is the mother of leadership."
Wendell L. Willkie
April 25, 2007
" Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going."
Kenneth Blanchard
April 25, 2007
" You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
Lee Iacocca
April 23, 2007
" No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
Peter Drucker
April 23, 2007
" Teaching is not new, it has been learnt somewhere else: Learn to teach."
Written in 2007 by Mani Vellan ---India
This proverb came into my mind when one of my faculty said, "Every teacher doesn't teach something which is created by them, even we learn from someone."
April 23, 2007
" If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
John Quincy Adams
April 18, 2007
" A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission."
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
April 18, 2007
" He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat."
Robert Estabrook
April 18, 2007
" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
George Eliot
April 16, 2007
" Whoever coined the phrase, "You're the wind beneath my wings", must have been referring to a special teacher."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Meaghan W., Age 16 --- North Carolina
This is a great quote because it describes my favorite teacher, Mrs. Doggendorf. I love this quote and it will stay with me forever.
April 16, 2007
" Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
Tao Te Ching
April 16, 2007
" The years teach what the days never know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 11, 2007
" It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
Elbert Hubbard
April 11, 2007
" Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."
Charles Lindbergh
April 11, 2007
" Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them."
Adlai Stevenson
April 9, 2007
" The power of applying an attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of a superior genius."
Lord Chesterfield
April 9, 2007
" When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge."
Albert Einstein
April 9, 2007
" But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy: that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly."
Plato
April 4, 2007
" An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in."
Charles Kettering
April 4, 2007
" Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
Winston Churchill
April 4, 2007
" An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
April 2, 2007
" Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living."
John Dewey
April 2, 2007
" The definition of education: education occurs when what has been learned is forgotten."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by NS Mazibuko --- South Africa
Some people yearn for education; some reject it without understanding the true meaning of the word. So pay attention and get educated.
April 2, 2007
" Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
Edward Gibbon
March 28, 2007
" Your life is like a book. If you don't write it, someone else will."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.S. --- Kentucky
March 28, 2007
" Concentration is the key that opens the door to success."
Written in 2007 by Kilian H., Age 17 --- Pennsylvania
It inspired me to concentrate
March 28, 2007
" Those who have a little things to do with their hands, have the capability to do a lot with their minds."
Written in 2007 by Narinder Sharma --- India
March 26, 2007
" Children are as clay in a potter's hands. Teachers, be as potters. Mold your students into beautiful and productive works of art."
Copyright © 2007 Shanelle Gauding
This quote came to me while I was working on a presentation about differentiated learning for an educational psychology class I am currently enrolled in. So often, teachers accept their students "just as they are" and never entertain the idea that they are malleable beings just waiting for the encouragement to become amazing and unique vessels filled with knowledge.
March 26, 2007
" Let education reach every child."
Written in 2007 by Pooja Nagda --- Massachusetts
March 26, 2007
" With regard to knowledge, you can never give what you don't have."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Starlet Quizano --- Philippines
It makes me improve my teaching by learning more and more to share to my students.
March 14, 2007
" I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
John Steinbeck
March 14, 2007
" The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange."
G. K. Chesterton
March 14, 2007
" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
Henry Ward Beecher
March 12, 2007
" When you fear losing something, and you do not do what is right, you definitely lose it."
Written in 2006 by Samuel Osebeyo --- Nigeria
This is for schoolteachers who are afraid of correcting their students when they go wrong. I was inspired to write it when I looked around my environment.
March 12, 2007
" You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed."
Russell H. Conwell
March 12, 2007
" Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
Washington Irving
March 7, 2007
" If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Albert Einstein
March 7, 2007
" Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."
Ovid
March 7, 2007
" If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything."
Marva Collins
March 5, 2007
" When you get your community to come together, now that's something, but when you get the world to unite, now that saves lives."
Copyright © 2007 Chris McElderry
I made up this quote when I was writing a research paper on Genocide. It really opened up my eyes in the way I think about the world. It made me realize how good we have it.
March 5, 2007
" No one is responsible for anything. The only thing they're responsible for is opportunity."
Mark Dawson --- Submitted by R.P., Age 16 --- California
My history teacher mentioned this during a lecture about WWII and immigration. Opportunity, to me, is the only thing you need from someone else to be successful.
March 5, 2007
" Never get through but go by."
Written in 2006 by Janielle M., Age 14 --- Michigan
Because I think if you always take the easy way out, you will never get anywhere in life.
February 28, 2007
" Teaching is like the fascinating chase between a cat and a mouse-- you must wisely make the best of every move and every moment."
Copyright © 2007 Nicole Monique Smith
February 28, 2007
" Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission."
Dr. Ralph Tyler
February 28, 2007
" A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it."
Emile Capouya
February 26, 2007
" I am responsible for everything that happens in my classroom - - Likewise, I am responsible for everything that fails to happen in my classroom."
Copyright © 1972 John Clark
What I love about this simple quote is you can change the word "classroom" to whatever you wish; life, students, classroom, school, office, church, children, soldiers, etc. This was my motto for 28 years serving our country while on active duty with the military during Vietnam as well as Desert Storm.
February 26, 2007
" You need not to be an education graduate to teach. Learning does not stop in the four corners of a classroom."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Madeline C., Age 17 --- Philippines
February 26, 2007
" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
Kurt Vonnegut
February 21, 2007
" Para-power is an invaluable source of power that the educational system can no longer afford to overlook!"
Copyright © 2006 Carolyn Jones Smith
Para-power is a synergy that consists of all the time, effort, and care that paraeducators put into the educational system as workers, tutors, caregivers, instructional staff, etc. We are an invaluable piece of the educational team puzzle. Para is short for paraeducator or paraprofessional. We are over 500, 000 strong and work in school systems across the United States. Your can find out more information about us at the National Resource Center For Paraprofessionals website.
February 21, 2007
" Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
Margaret Mead
February 21, 2007
" You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
Marvin Minsky
February 19, 2007
" A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
G.K. Chesterton --- Submitted by Arvind Sharma --- India
February 19, 2007
" I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing."
Lloyd Alexander
February 19, 2007
" Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
Thomas Carlyle
February 14, 2007
" The greatest leaders in the world have not gotten were they are by knowing what to expect from the people they lead. They have gotten there by understanding what not to expect. The greatest disappointments in life come as a result of violated expectations. When we manage our expectations, we exercise self control over the emotions of consequence."
Copyright © 2007 John Giroux
February 14, 2007
" Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."
Malcolm Forbes
February 14, 2007
" Be curious, not judgmental."
Walt Whitman
February 12, 2007
" I once had a brilliant teacher who said in the classroom, 'I made a lot of money in my life and I have enough money to live the rest of it. I don't need to be a teacher'. Then one student asked, 'So why do you still teach classes?' And he answered, 'Because I want you to change the world'."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Marcelo S., Age 16 --- Brazil
This motivated me a lot, because I know he was not there for the money, but because he believed in our potentials to be someone better than just a professional in the future, he believed we could be a "world-changer".
February 12, 2007
" It is said in the Bible that God wants us to share our blessings and talents. What a fitting way to share it - by TEACHING."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Napoleon G., Age 13 --- Philippines
February 12, 2007
" The key to education is the experience of beauty."
Friedrich Schiller
February 7, 2007
" I do not teach. I relate."
Montaigne
February 7, 2007
" Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
Roger Lewin
February 7, 2007
" Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
Henri Bergson
February 5, 2007
" The empowering effect one feels when educating any child lies in the simple truth that the real joy of it is not the moments you have embraced but rather moments etched in their hearts when you had allowed them to embrace you."
Copyright © 2007 Russell G. Garcia
This is an original quote that I have put together...so I hope everyone likes it and uses it!! --- Russell
February 5, 2007
" O is for only and only those who try will learn their lessons well and learn by and by."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Emma Gonzalez --- Texas
When I was in Second Grade I had to learn this quote. The 'O' was part of the word 'Welcome' which was an introduction to a parent's meeting at our school. The school year was 1954. I felt that I was a very important part of the education process and that I would never forget this quote. My parents, who have since passed, told me that I would even say it in my sleep.
February 5, 2007
" You don't have to be the best, just do your best."
Written in 2007 by Bob Gorski --- South Carolina
January 31, 2007
" In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less."
Lee Iacocca
January 31, 2007
" Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't."
Pete Seeger
January 31, 2007
" What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."
Aristotle
January 29, 2007
" Just because something is easy, doesn't make it the BEST option. What is best usually requires some WORK."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by H. Brennan --- Florida
To remind my own students that nothing worth having comes easily. To acquire what we want in life, we have to be ready to work hard for it!
January 29, 2007
" There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."
John Adams
January 29, 2007
" If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."
Buckminster Fuller
January 24, 2007
" The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."
William J. Bennett
January 24, 2007
" If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
Lee Iacocca
January 24, 2007
" To find what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness."
John Dewey
January 22, 2007
" Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford
January 22, 2007
" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde
January 22, 2007
" Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
Thomas Jefferson
January 17, 2007
" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
Martin Luther King Jr.
January 17, 2007
" It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists."
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
January 17, 2007
" Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true."
William Inge
January 15, 2007
" I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."
Septima Poinsette Clark
January 15, 2007
" Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."
Will Durant
January 15, 2007
" Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Epictetus
January 10, 2007
" You develop good habits and bad - There is no gray area."
Bud Foster --- Submitted by Jonathan Ford --- Virginia
Bud Foster is Defensive Coordinator and Inside Linebackers Coach at Virginia Tech
January 10, 2007
" Know yourself if you want to know students to teach."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pushkar Sharma --- India
January 10, 2007
" If you always live in tomorrow, you will never reach the finish line."
Copyright © 2007 LaTashia Mills
I told my students this their first day back from their Christmas break so that they would understand that the things that happened to them in the past should be left there.
January 8, 2007
" When you have had enough of "Life", start finding reasons to educate others. A life that teaches, never has time enough to teach everything."
Copyright © 2005 Nirvikar Dahiya
January 8, 2007
" Beyond the valley of knowledge is the path to the house of hope and wisdom."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Napoleon G., Age 13 --- Philippines
January 8, 2007
" If a student cannot learn the way you teach, teach the way he learns."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by R.S. --- Illinois
I heard this at a convention once and I think that to myself whenever I'm trying to help a student learn a subject.
December 20, 2006
" Always do more than is required of you."
George S. Patton
December 20, 2006
" I would say good luck but luck is unnecessary for those who are masters at what they do."
Copyright © 2003 Ashley Ellison
I say this to my students prior to taking a test or any assignment that they believe is challenging or thought provoking. I have also chanted this to myself prior doing anything that may be difficult or rigorous.
December 20, 2006
" Do a little more each day than you think you can."
Lowell Thomas
December 18, 2006
Mr B's F.A.C.T.S. of Life
F-lexibility
A-ccountability
C-ooperation
T-rust
S-incerity
Written in 2003 by T. Bogusz --- Massachusetts
Know the F.A.C.T.S.!!!
December 18, 2006
" The only limitation of your writing ability is your imagination."
Written in 2004 by Ikhwan Sopa --- Indonesia
December 18, 2006
" As the Teacher needs Good Students to teach, the Students need Good Teachers to learn."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Abhilasha Athnere --- India
December 13, 2006
" Gold miners mine gold. As a student, mine knowledge."
Ibrahim Hena --- Submitted by Jethro Alberts --- Nigeria
December 13, 2006
" College is everything you prepare for...and nothing you expect."
Mr. Gresk --- Submitted by S.D., Age 17 --- Illinois
Way to go Gresk...awesome teacher, mentor, and friend.
December 13, 2006
" Teaching the student knowledge is not just having them earn an A in your class - it's knowing that they learned it."
Written in 2006 by George D., Age 16 --- California
This is my personal quote. I would like teachers to make the student want to be in the class, not just sit there and wish him/her the best. As students, we see the teacher as our leader and want them to teach and help us to be motivated to learn, not just read the textbook or handouts. We learn what you teach and we use it - so make the best of this year.
December 11, 2006
" A student learns and a teacher teaches. But when a student teaches and a teacher learns, this is education."
Copyright © 2006 Lara Dunlevy
December 11, 2006
" Start a crusade in your life to be your very best."
William Danforth
December 11, 2006
" Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
Lillian Smith
December 6, 2006
" Don't let the only place you leave your mark be a bathroom wall."
Written in 2006 by Michele Hice --- New Mexico
This is a comment that I made to my students one day in class. I was trying to motivate them to try to do the best they could on everything they did. Some of the kids really liked it and it became kind of our classroom slogan.
December 6, 2006
" We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."
Maria Mitchell
December 6, 2006
" Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
Baltasar Gracian
December 4, 2006
" The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
Mortimer J. Adler
December 4, 2006
" Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
John Dewey
December 4, 2006
" There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books."
Henry Ward Beecher
November 29, 2006
" The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully."
Norman Cousins
November 29, 2006
" The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning."
Nathan M. Pusey
November 29, 2006
" All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent."
John F. Kennedy
November 22, 2006
" It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
Winston Churchill
November 22, 2006
" If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear."
Tai Babilonia
November 22, 2006
" I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
Albert Einstein
November 20, 2006
" Love your children especially when they do not deserve it. It's they who need it most."
Juan T. David --- Submitted by Julie Feliciano --- Philippines
I'm borrowing from the wisdom of my father and his father before him. I hope parents, who at one time or another are frustrated with their children, will appreciate the value of understanding and tolerance.
November 20, 2006
" Every knowledge starts with reason and ends in faith."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Surjit Singh --- India
November 20, 2006
" Any Individual imparting positive knowledge to another individual or a group can be defined as a Teacher."
Written in 2006 by Nikita Jaggi --- India
November 15, 2006
" People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated."
John Kenneth Galbraith
November 15, 2006
" A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
Frederick Douglass
November 15, 2006
" If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
November 13, 2006
" The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great."
G.K. Chesterton
November 13, 2006
" I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble."
Rudyard Kipling
November 13, 2006
" Sit down before a fact like a little child and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
Thomas Huxley
November 8, 2006
" We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
B. F. Skinner
November 8, 2006
" Students are alive, and the purpose of education is to stimulate and guide their self-development. It follows as a corollary from this premise that teachers should also be alive with living thoughts."
Alfred North Whitehead
November 8, 2006
" When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them."
Confucius
November 6, 2006
" Teaching is more a passion than a profession."
Written in 2006 Mau Nivales --- Philippines
November 6, 2006
" Those who dream the most do the most."
Written in 2006 by Pravin Chamlikar --- India
November 6, 2006
" Determination is what gains you respect, but nothing you ever do will make you perfect. And this you should understand."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by D.G., Age 18 --- Alberta, Canada
November 1, 2006
" What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
Harriet Martineau
November 1, 2006
" Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
Matsuo Basho
November 1, 2006
" You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
October 30, 2006
" Never say "I can't", say "I will" and then you will succeed."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Honi Brown --- Missouri
This was a quote that my music teacher had posted in our choir room when I was in Junior High. Anytime we said that we could not do something we had to repeat this quote in front of the class.
October 30, 2006
" We all like to imitate our heroes. What's better is if we become our own hero and help others, for that is the best thing for one to imitate."
Written in 2006 by Allen Steble --- Australia
October 30, 2006
" The noblest search is the search for excellence."
Lyndon B. Johnson
October 25, 2006
" The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. The more I realize I don't know, the more I want to learn."
Albert Einstein
October 25, 2006
" It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 25, 2006
" In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
October 23, 2006
" Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."
Thomas Jefferson
October 23, 2006
" A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."
Walter Bagehot
October 23, 2006
" Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
Erich Fromm
October 18, 2006
" The problem with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was."
Walt West
October 18, 2006
" It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
Epictetus
October 18, 2006
" Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
October 16, 2006
" Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things."
Peter Drucker & Warren Bennis --- Submitted by Eben Van der Nest
October 16, 2006
" EVERYTHING starts small."
Mildred Kay Williams --- Submitted by Adam Schmidt
Examples:
1. Many children's births, even your grandparents' births, started with a little look, smile, hi, hello.........
2. Everything is made up of atoms.
3. One of many good scientific theories is that our entire universe began as one "singularity". Literally nothing is smaller than that. It's infinitely small.
4. All life began as one single protein.
5. A spark..............then a forest fire.
October 16, 2006
I'm a teacher because I care,
I'm a teacher because we are rare,
I'm a teacher because I come to class prepared,
I'm a teacher because I want your chance to be Fair.
Written in 2006 by Champagne Lloyd --- New Jersey
October 11, 2006
" No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
Sir William Osler
October 11, 2006
" Just because humans can reason doesn't mean they are reasonable."
Written in 2006 by Rick Cowart --- Arkansas
Written in a school classroom.
October 11, 2006
" Much learning does not teach understanding."
Heraclitus
October 9, 2006
" Life for some is a bed of roses, to some a garden of thorns, yet to others, a mixture of both. But whatever your fate in life, a positive attitude towards it will affect a positive change."
Written in 2006 by Otobong Adaise ---Nigeria
October 9, 2006
" The easiest lessons to remember are the ones you learn the hard way!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Purvi Jadhav --- India
October 9, 2006
" Hard work is not only a function of skill, but an act of will."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Meikan Gabriel --- Kenya
October 4, 2006
" A leader explains simple things in a typical manner while a teacher explains typical things in a simple manner."
Written in 2006 by Govind Chandhok --- India
October 4, 2006
" Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
Leonardo da Vinci
October 4, 2006
" Your best teacher is your last mistake."
Ralph Nader
October 2, 2006
" There is a story behind every face."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sandra Wagner --- Illinois
October 2, 2006
" Another school year has begun; another year of 'Don't Knows'. It's is the time of year when you enter each new class and look into the eyes of children. They are children with love, without love, lonely children, hungry children, frustrated children. As we look deep into their eyes we see the longing to belong, to be heard, to be loved.
As teachers we wonder how it is ever going to be humanly possible to teach them Math, English, How to Succeed, How to Put their Past Behind Them, How to Make Great Individuals of Themselves? If we are going to attempt this feat with our own human strength, we will have failed even before we begin.
Let us see them as mirrors reflecting what many of us were years ago. Let us see them as we would see our own children. Let us not segregate ourselves from these darlings, in trouble teen rainment. Let us clothe them with wisdom, love and understanding. With Jesus as our Master Teacher, we can make angelic scholars of the fertile souls set before us."
Copyright © 2006 Barbara Kington
October 2, 2006
" When I started believing that the laws of physics were the only permanent things in this world and every other thing else could be changed, I came across the theory of relativity."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Saransh S., Age 16 --- Delhi, India
September 27, 2006
" When lessons are hard and students fail, I see them not as students who try and fail but human beings who fail and try. It makes me proud that they persevere despite the anxiety and the invisible scar failure leaves on them."
Copyright © 2006 Mau Nivales
September 27, 2006
" No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
Emma Goldman
September 27, 2006
" I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter
September 25, 2006
" When we recognize that we are all learning and growing together, that the teacher is also a learner and the child can be a great teacher, then we are able to share the respect that each of us deserves."
Nannette Wylde --- Submitted by M.S., Age 17 --- California
A special person in my life, who was my teacher and now my mentor and has known me my whole life, shared this with me recently.
September 25, 2006
" The only way to fully understand something is to teach it to someone who doesn't."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Matt Tollenaar --- Australia
September 25, 2006
" Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
Robert A. Heinlein
September 22, 2006
" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison
September 22, 2006
" I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday."
Abraham Lincoln
September 22, 2006
" What is now proved was once only imagined."
William Blake
September 20, 2006
" To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. They will champion the causes of life's underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never been known. They will endure. Towards these ends I pledge my life's work. I will supply the children with tools and knowledge to overcome the obstacles. I will pass on the wisdom of my years and temper it with patience. I shall impact in each child the desire to fulfill his or her dream. I shall teach."
Henry James
September 20, 2006
" Reading is exercise for your brain. Just like aerobics, it keeps your mind fit."
Copyright © 2006 LaQuitta Terrell-Jones
September 20, 2006
" From the beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery."
Alfred North Whitehead
September 13, 2006
" A great teacher is one who possesses information, intelligence, and the instincts to know how to present what he knows."
Socrates
September 13, 2006
" Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
Carl Jung
September 13, 2006
" He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius
September 11, 2006
" Children are the messengers sent to you by God to teach you the lessons of innocence, patience and truthfulness that you have long forgotten."
Copyright © 2006 Nikita Jaggi
September 11, 2006
" Even something difficult to understand makes you understand it's difficult to understand."
Written in 2006 by Thomas Falk --- Illinois
September 11, 2006
" Attitudes are more important than facts."
Karl A. Menninger
September 6, 2006
" You are the candles that light our future."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Laxmi G. --- India
September 6, 2006
" A teacher is one who can put himself / herself into the shoes of the students."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Rana K. ---India
September 6, 2006
" If you want to be a good teacher, always feel yourself a good student."
Written in 2006 by Govind Chandhok --- India
August 30, 2006
" Children are like seeds that are moved into my kinder-"garden"; seeds that came from different pots, with different roots, and cultivated in different soils, exposed to different growing conditions. It is my job to make their environment in the class the most enriched and meaningful. I must provide the best lessons on a daily basis, so that I can help them grow some strong roots in education and help them blossom into tall and proud independent readers, writers, and lovers of education itself. I hope to point them in the right direction, to keep growing as learners and people, but I feel very sad when their roots get too big for my garden and they have to be transplanted into a 1st grade classroom."
Written in 2004 by L. Cervantes --- Submitted by Laura C. --- Texas
August 30, 2006
" Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life."
Henry L. Doherty
August 30, 2006
" The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after."
Newton D. Baker
August 28, 2006
" Teaching someone is not enough. It is when they pass on that information, insight or knowledge that you know you have gotten through to them and they have learned."
Written in 2006 by Michelle S., Age 17 --- California
I randomly thought of this, but it all came together with this quote. You only really understand something when you can explain it to someone else.
August 28, 2006
" You have learned nothing, if by study you remain idle."
Written in 1990 by John Giroux --- Kansas
August 28, 2006
" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
Leonardo da Vinci
August 23, 2006
" Don't join an easy crowd; you want growth. Go where expectations and the demands to perform are high."
Jim Rohn
August 23, 2006
" All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
Calvin Coolidge
August 23, 2006
" To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation."
Isaac Newton
August 21, 2006
" To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching."
George Bernard Shaw
August 21, 2006
" An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
Dr. Edwin Land
August 21, 2006
" A vivid imagination compels the whole body to obey it."
Aristotle
August 16, 2006
" All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
Leonardo da Vinci
August 16, 2006
" Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Maria Montessori
August 16, 2006
" The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
B. B. King
August 14, 2006
" We all must choose our own path on life's road. But, no one said we can't stop and ask for directions."
Copyright © 2006 Thomas Ewing
August 14, 2006
" Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
August 14, 2006
" Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
Elizabeth Bowen
August 9, 2006
" It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
Claude Bernard
August 9, 2006
" Language is the dress of thought."
Samuel Johnson
August 9, 2006
" The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
Mary McLeod Bethune
August 7, 2006
" Reading is an adventure of the mind."
Copyright © 2000 Edgar Gonzalez
August 7, 2006
" I always like to think of you,
Always like to give you
A special place in my Heart
To bring cheer to my day.
I like to think of all the deeds
You have done for me
You care about me
And turn a nice time
Into a wonderful occasion for me.
I like to think of you because
You are one of those special people in my life
Who has made my world
A richer place to live in..........
Written in 2006 by Gunjan T., Age 17 --- India
This poem is dedicated to my favorite teacher MISS AMI!!!! She has left the school & I miss her very much...
August 2, 2006
" Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems."
Dr. Stephen Covey
August 2, 2006
" The teacher is just a boat to take the student over the river."
Gautama Buddha
August 2, 2006
" There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
Isaac Asimov
July 31, 2006
" To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
July 31, 2006
" Don't worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you."
Robert Fulghum
July 31, 2006
" Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
Denis Waitley
July 26, 2006
" Give your heart out in teaching. Do your best; say the wisest words. But keep in mind that at the end of the day, students remember not the exam nor the lessons you taught but how much you have affected their lives. Teaching is also mostly about life's lessons."
Written in 2006 by Mau Nivales --- Philippines
July 26, 2006
" As you graduate today, realize that you must be fully committed and motivated, your aspirations should not just be something you pursue, they should become a way of life."
Copyright © 2006 Christopher J. Faraglia
July 26, 2006
" The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
Eden Phillpots
July 24, 2006
" Teaching: It is understanding that as long as you teach, you are still learning."
Copyright © 2006 Aline Hanle
July 24, 2006
" Everyone is a STAR that represents Individuality as well as Togetherness to shine above everyone else."
Copyright © 2005 Tim McCastland
Another quote that inspired me by my Master's program for administration in Education. This quote was used for our PowerPoint presentation.
July 24, 2006
" Knowledge is Power... but, only if you use it."
Written by Harry Azzano --- Ohio
July 19, 2006
" In life, whatever you do, wherever you do it, surely the sun will move and your shadow will be there for all to see."
Written in 2006 by Ibrahim Hena --- Nigeria
July 19, 2006
" There are three things we need to maintain healthy attitudes - a sense of humor, a sense of hope and a sense of humility. Look in the mirror to see if you are healthy."
Written in 2006 by L. Obrock --- Pennsylvania
July 19, 2006
" Every successful learning initiative requires key people to allocate hours to new types of activities: reflection, planning, collaborative work, and training."
Peter Senge, The Dance of Change
July 17, 2006
" If the teacher is not respected and the student not cared for, confusion will arise, however clever one is."
Lao Tsu
July 17, 2006
" Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
Jacques Barzun
July 17, 2006
" Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task."
Haim G. Ginott
July 12, 2006
" Success starts small, but the more you feed it and water it with a winning attitude, the bigger and faster it grows."
Copyright © 2006 Allen Steble
July 12, 2006
" Sheep and goats walk in herds, a tiger always walks alone... fearlessly...to his destination."
Written in 2006 Shailaza Singh --- India
July 12, 2006
" You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
Charles F. Kettering
July 10, 2006
" The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them."
Stephen Brookfield
July 10, 2006
" The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."
Michael Jackson
July 10, 2006
" Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."
Joyce A. Myers
June 28, 2006
" Each child is a star. They only shine when they seek the light within themselves."
Copyright © 2006 Tim McCastland
Created this little quote today while in my master's program for leadership in administration for education.
June 28, 2006
" Teachers, the new generation will be your devotion."
M.Kemal Ataturk --- Submitted by Ayse Nehri --- Turkey
June 28, 2006
" Let life be your teacher, for it is the only thing that changes as you do."
Written in 2006 by Anna-Lee P., Age 13 --- Arkansas
June 26, 2006
" Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time."
Hebrew Proverb
June 26, 2006
" Information is not knowledge."
Albert Einstein
June 26, 2006
" Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."
Orlando A. Battista
June 21, 2006
" One life is all you've got; your choices are your own. So take care when deciding because your future depends on it."
Written in 2006 by Nic Muhl --- South Africa
June 21, 2006
" A pessimist is a person who sees something positive in him/her being negative."
Written in 2006 by Solomon Da --- India
June 21, 2006
" Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself."
John Dewey
June 19, 2006
" A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."
James Allen
June 19, 2006
" Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
Thomas Huxley
June 19, 2006
" The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
David Russell
June 14, 2006
" You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems."
Mark Victor Hansen
June 14, 2006
" One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them."
Dean Rusk
June 14, 2006
" Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing."
Arnold Glasgow
June 12, 2006
" I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others."
John Lubbock
June 12, 2006
" The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Socrates
June 12, 2006
" Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
Albert Einstein
June 7, 2006
" When you lead with respect rather than fear, you become a great teacher."
Copyright © 2006 David E. Eurich
June 7, 2006
" I may be young and still learning, but caterpillars grow into butterflies and then fly away."
Written in 2005 by Kim S. T., Age 13 --- Massachusetts
I made a banner out of this in 2005 and during that time, it was so simple and it didn't have much meaning to it. But as I was looking through my portfolio of banners a couple of weeks ago, I saw that this was one of the deepest ones to me and it means so much.
June 7, 2006
" The only way of knowing where your limit is, is by going beyond it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.J. van Z., Age 16 --- South Africa
June 5, 2006
" All I can do is tell you how to do it, but in the end, it's YOU that's got to do it!"
Kyle C. --- Submitted by Niki H., Age 14 --- Utah
This quote has helped me beyond measure... thank you!
June 5, 2006
" Develop an egoless character."
Written in 2000 by Sheocharan Agarwal --- India
June 5, 2006
" To be a good human being... think good and do good. To be a good professional... work hard , work smart and be honest with yourself."
Life --- Submitted by Kaushik Ganguly --- India
Experience gathered from my own life.
May 24, 2006
" The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have."
Charles Schwab
May 24, 2006
" Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
May 24, 2006
" To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement."
Bertrand Russell
May 22, 2006
" The nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never will and never can be."
Thomas Jefferson
May 22, 2006
" I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
May 22, 2006
" Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."
Albert Einstein
May 17, 2006
" The moment a question arises, itself, is the ignition step to find the solution."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by M. Srikanth Babu --- India
May 17, 2006
" The secret in education lies in respecting the student."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 17, 2006
" Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
Ayn Rand
May 15, 2006
" A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars."
Henry Brooks Adams
May 15, 2006
" Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
Will Rogers
May 15, 2006
" The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed."
Helen Keller
May 10, 2006
" A tool is only as good as the discipline used to wield it."
Copyright © 1995 John L. Giroux
May 10, 2006
" If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught."
Oscar Hammerstein II
May 10, 2006
" There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
Robert Frost
May 8, 2006
" If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning."
Carl Rogers
May 8, 2006
" Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
May 8, 2006
" Education is the ability to think clearly, act well in a world of work and to appreciate life."
Brigham Young
May 3, 2006
" The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
Albert Einstein
May 3, 2006
" Know or listen to those who know."
Baltasar Gracian
May 3, 2006
" Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
Leonardo da Vinci
May 1, 2006
" Writing shouldn't be forced to be written, but inspired to be created."
Written in 2006 by Daria G. --- Oregon
May 1, 2006
" A child's attitude towards everything is an artist's attitude."
Willa Cather
May 1, 2006
" To make headway, improve your head."
B. C. Forbes
April 26, 2006
" Education is a choice. Attending a class is not education. You must consciously choose to want to be educated or else you never will be educated."
Copyright © 2006 Karamjeet Singh
April 26, 2006
" Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem."
Copyright © 2000 Terry a O'Neal
April 26, 2006
" The first step to knowledge begins as all others, with but a single step out the front door."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by M.L., Age 16 --- Arizona
I pride myself on how smart I am and when I stumbled on this quote it has always reminded me of that step I took outside my home and headed towards school, or the library, or anywhere else I could go to learn. And still each day I take that one step, because each day we all take that one step, but we never really realize it.
April 24, 2006
" Plant the seeds of hope, love & peace in the heart of a child and you will change the world."
Copyright © 2005 Don Poitras
April 24, 2006
" A widow, a single parent, raising her children the best way she knows how. So many mouths to feed, yet no cared to hear her say, she lacked education or experience to earn more than the years minimum wage. Through years of hardship and circumstanced, her hopes and dreams for her children and their future are to learn from her experiences; to triumphantly rise above it all and succeed. This is the site she longs to see, and once accomplished, she will be free."
Written by J. Fatutoa --- California
April 24, 2006
" Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."
Horace Mann
April 19, 2006
" The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."
Maya Angelou
April 19, 2006
" My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
Helen Hayes
April 19, 2006
" You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."
Tom Brokaw
April 17, 2006
" I wish I could persuade every teacher to be proud of his occupation - not conceited or pompous, but proud. People who introduce themselves with the shame remark that they are, "just teachers", gives me despair in my heart. Did you ever hear a lawyer say depreciatingly that he was only a patent attorney? Did you ever hear a physician say "I am just a brain surgeon?" I beg of you to stop apologizing for being a member of the most important profession in the world. Draw yourself up to your full height, look at anybody squarely in the eye and say, 'I am a Teacher.'"
William Garr --- Submitted by Noreen Mingo --- Philippines
April 17, 2006
" Your goal deserves commitment; show it respect."
Written in 2006 by Ronnie Nijmeh, Canada
April 17, 2006
" This is a Story about four people named, everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody. There was an important job to be done and everybody could have done it, but nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was everybody's job. Everybody thought somebody could do it, but nobody realized that everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done!"
Author Unknown
April 12, 2006
" We are all teachers and we are all students. We all have something to give and we all have something to learn."
Written in 1991 by Diane M. Giuliano
April 12, 2006
" Upon our children - how they are taught - rests the fate - or fortune - of tomorrow's world."
B.C. Forbes
April 12, 2006
" We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
Stevie Wonder
April 10, 2006
" Remember this: In science, the force that pulls things down is called gravity. In our world, the force that keeps us down is called difficulty. In science, a work must be done to put things up. In our world, work must be done in order to put us on the top."
Written in 2006 by Dennis L., Age 14 --- Philippines
April 10, 2006
" 30 years from now, it won't matter what clothes you wore, who your friends were or how your hair looked. What will matter is what you learned and how you used it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Greg Foulger --- United Kingdom
April 10, 2006
" All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate."
John Dewey
April 5, 2006
" Education is one of the most valuable things you can acquire. Be good to those who seek to educate you......the fact that they are willing to makes them extraordinary."
Copyright © 2006 Julianne Buckingham
My mother and father are both teachers and I think that is one of the most noble professions. Professional educators cannot be paid enough for what they do.....they not only teach students a particular subject, but they must also teach them how to be good people. It requires persistence, patience, intelligence, wit, passion for helping others, integrity, and above all else, a genuine love of others. I admire anyone who has the capability to touch so many lives everyday.......and that is exactly what teachers do!
April 5, 2006
" The temple that teachers built will last while ages roll, for that beautiful unseen temple is the child's eternal soul."
St. Ambrose --- Submitted by Noreen Mingo --- Philippines
April 5, 2006
" Kids often put all of their faith on one talent but unfortunately when you go all or nothing, nothing is usually all that you have got."
Written in 2006 by Chris Rourke
It is only logical to spread out your opportunities. Don't put all of your eggs in the same basket.
April 3, 2006
" I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
Frederick Douglass
April 3, 2006
" To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
Theodore Roosevelt
April 3, 2006
" I will not permit people to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate them."
Booker T. Washington
March 29, 2006
" As a child, the way of life is to learn. As an adult the way of life is to teach. And as a teacher the way of life is to make the student better than you."
Written in 2005 by Sensei Jon S., Age 17 --- New York
March 29, 2006
" An imagination is nothing, unless you use it!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Matthew F., Age 14
March 29, 2006
" Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."
Nancy Astor
March 27, 2006
" Practice is the best of all instructors."
Publilius Syrus
March 27, 2006
" Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge."
Plato
March 27, 2006
" The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."
Allan Bloom
March 22, 2006
" Read The Book!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by James V. --- Philippines
I always say this to my classmates before they ask and now they are inspired reading books and learning many things.
March 22, 2006
" A teacher is a mother of knowledge."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Angad D., Age 14 --- India
March 22, 2006
" Well begun is half done. Be ready to start challenging from today."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pallavi Malhotra --- India
March 20, 2006
" Have you ever looked into a pair of eyes and wished you could remove the weight that is hiding the sunshine of youth? As a teacher, there are days I have wished to. There are other times when I feel like packing up and hitting the road, away from the cares and hurts of the classroom. But there is always that "thank you smile" that keeps me going back each day.
It hurts down to the tip of our hearts when our girls are afraid to say but relieved when they do - that is tell their stories. They tell about friends, stepbrothers, fathers, neighbors all wanting one thing from them. No, not respect; no, not a good name; no, not a hug but a piece of the pie. These girls have tried everything - from begging to running away from home. As I spoke with one she said she had tried three homes and each time the same thing happens. This time she is afraid that telling her Dad about her stepbrother will bring a rift into the family.
Girls, now is the time to talk; teachers now is the time to listen; parents now is the time to see. If girls speak, teachers listen and parents see, we will help to put a stop to hurts. How do I help? I try to be the ears they do not have at home, the trust they hunt for and give the love that evades them. We pray together, talk together and listen together and it helps. Teachers, reach out and touch a teen's hand."
Copyright © 2006 Barbara Kington
March 20, 2006
" It is the responsibility of all great teachers to find time to pause and reflect-- to explore every refreshing opportunity to gain a child's respect."
Copyright © 2006 Nicole Monique Smith
March 20, 2006
" Trying to teach children without involving parents is like raking leaves in high wind."
Dr. Kimberly Muhammad-Earl --- Submitted by Eve Boyd --- California
Dr. Muhammad-Earl is from the Chicago Public Schools Parent and Community Training Academy
March 15, 2006
" Learning is never done without errors and defeat."
Vladimir Lenin
March 15, 2006
" Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken."
Bertrand Russell
March 15, 2006
" It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."
Jane Fonda
March 13, 2006
" When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
Harper Lee
March 13, 2006
" Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example."
John Ruskin
March 13, 2006
" Men learn while they teach."
Seneca
March 8, 2006
" Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
Albert Einstein
March 8, 2006
" The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
Eden Phillpotts
March 8, 2006
" The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon
March 6, 2006
" When there is a task at hand that needs to be dealt with, you should never focus on how hard it is or how hard it may get. For this train of thought will lead you into the unknown and going there will set you on the path to fail before you have begun. Don't waste your time worrying about what may go wrong but focus instead on your ability to ensure that positive & realistic outcome."
Copyright © 2005 Carmel Dagiandis
March 6, 2006
" Without an imagination, you are at the mercy of reality."
Copyright © 2006 Anna Thomas
March 6, 2006
" When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry."
Mahatma Gandhi
February 27, 2006
" Think outside the box...you might be surprised by what you learn."
Copyright © 2005 Michelle Ward
February 27, 2006
" Carry out your dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem."
Copyright © 2000 Terry a O'Neal
February 27, 2006
" Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Immanuel Kant
February 22, 2006
" Teachers must be self-less. Always."
Written in 2006 by Maurie Liza M. Nivales --- Philippines
February 22, 2006
" Inspiration by example is a lifetime's work but it's worth doing as it triggers learning amongst people. That is what teachers stand for."
Written in 2006 by Vishal Kapoor --- Singapore
I'm a budding author. February 22, 2006
" If we thought for a moment about what we are about to say, we would speak a little or less."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Srinivas Krishnamoorthy --- India
February 15, 2006
" The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."
Brian Tracy
February 15, 2006
" There is a brilliant child locked inside every student."
Marva Collins
February 15, 2006
" Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Henry Ford
February 13, 2006
" A wise man learns from his mistakes but an even wiser man learns from somebody else's."
T.D.R. --- Submitted by A.D. --- Botswana
My old French teacher once said this and it has stuck with me every since.
February 13, 2006
" A teacher can only teach you about who you are."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Angad D., Age 14 --- Punjab, India
February 13, 2006
" Being without Knowledge is like being without Light."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Maryan Ali --- Somalia
February 8, 2006
" A teacher must always teach to doubt his teaching."
José Ortega y Gasset
February 8, 2006
" My dear children: I rejoice to see you before me today, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land. Bear in mind that the wonderful things that you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, and add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common. If you always keep that in mind you will find meaning in life and work and acquire the right attitude towards other nations and ages."
Albert Einstein talking to a group of school children in 1934
February 8, 2006
" A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind."
Kahlil Gibran
February 6, 2006
" Never live your life in the shadows of the people that you look up to. Instead, step out into the light they have created to help you along your own path."
Copyright © 2006 Katy Downing
February 6, 2006
" Your future is what you make it, so make it a good one."
Robert Zemeckis/Bob Gale
Submitted by M.B., Age 15 --- Western Australia
Written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis but spoken by Christopher Lloyd
February 6, 2006
" Sometimes we put up walls, not to block people out but to see who cares enough to tear them down."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by M.O., Age 15 --- Illinois
February 1, 2006
" Don't have others do for you of what you can do for yourself."
Written in 2005 by Trevor D., Age 14 --- Kentucky
February 1, 2006
" Lead me. Encourage me. Believe in me. Love me. Only then, shall I learn."
Written in 2006 by Courtney S., Age 15 --- Tennessee
I wrote this for my Spanish teacher, who is the smartest guy you will ever meet, but just needs a little bit of instruction sometimes.
February 1, 2006
" I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."
Marcus T. Cicero
January 30, 2006
" You are the product of your thoughts."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Venkatesh Naik - A.P., India
January 30, 2006
" It's better late then never, but it's never better later."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by T. Ricart --- Arizona
My boyfriend said this about finishing college. I thought it made perfect sense.
January 30, 2006
" Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition."
Written in 2005 by Abiodun Osazuwa --- Nigeria
January 25, 2006
" The problem may not be with the other one, as we always think; could be very much within us!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ajayadas S. --- India
January 25, 2006
" I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."
Henry Ford
January 25, 2006
" No one could make a greater mistake than those who did nothing because they could do only a little."
Edmund Burke
January 23, 2006
" It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare --- Submitted by T.M., Age 14 --- Maryland
This is the quote I live by at school. I can become whatever I want to become. My destiny lies in my hands. I know that if I work hard and focus on school, my destiny will become clear along the way.
January 23, 2006
" Life is like a lesson book with exercises, some of which has no answers."
Written in 2005 by Ibrahim Hena --- Borno, Nigeria
January 23, 2006
" Never earn money because every one can earn it. Try to earn self-identity because very few people can do that."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Gaurav Luhadia --- M.P., India
January 18, 2006
" A big broad smile is the best medicine for your students."
Written in 2005 by Joan Osawe --- Ontario, Canada
January 18, 2006
" No man is ignorant if he thirsts for knowledge."
Written in 2005 by Joeen Buensalido --- Manila, Philippines
January 18, 2006
Perception most think to be key
The way to see inside of me
False accusations spread overwhelming hate
Of which seals the victim's fate
The outside of me is what most see as real
But they could never know how I feel
A deep personality lies within
Waiting patiently for the next chapter to begin
A strong individual awaits in a cage
To speak up, let out bottled up rage
When will I be free once again
Will it come before the end
Through the thick darkness a light shines
A love fills me pure and divine
A hero comes along and opens the door
To the cage belonging to a personality free once more
So as I sit here before you today
I ask you to think of who helped you find your way
If you have yet to find it, do not give up hope
You will climb this never-ending slope
Life is coming, so grab its hand
Hold on tight, ones knows you can
You know this is what you have been waiting for
So get on the horse and ride furthermore
Find the path that you here seek
Climb and reach the tallest peak
Follow your heart to whatever end
After which you can make amends
Most importantly be true to yourself
Be strong and think of nothing else
Fret not and carry on
For the way has come and you must be gone
Written in 2005 by Courtney S., Age 15 --- Tennessee
I wrote this during a very difficult time for me: the transition from middle to high school and for the only person who ever truly listened, my 7th grade English teacher.
January 16, 2006
" Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
Kahlil Gibran
January 16, 2006
" Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot."
Hermann Hesse
January 16, 2006
" To develop a complete mind, study the science of art, study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."
Leonardo Da Vinci
January 11, 2006
" Mastery needs practice. Results need efforts. When you understand, success will be yours."
Written in 2005 by Puneet Patel --- Delhi, India
You don't have to search for the right things for you; just workout for humanity and peace. A good day is in front of you. Accept it as gift, not as an achievement otherwise you don't feel there's more to work for. All this thinking started in my mind when I was sitting in flight to Delhi from Ahemedabad, alone. A bit of loneliness gives you a chance to think about what you should do - what is right for you.
January 11, 2006
" All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher."
Plato
January 11, 2006
" Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell
January 9, 2006
" The desire to learn counts more than any other qualification and seriousness more than brilliance."
Dr. C --- Submitted by Etta Walden --- Oklahoma
January 9, 2006
" If there is no struggle then, there is no progress."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Tanya A., Age 16 --- India
January 9, 2006
" Teachers work hard to give us a better life. Don't let their hard work go to waste; put it to good use."
Written in 2005 by Diana Perez
December 21, 2005
" If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
Henry Ford
December 21, 2005
" We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."
Margaret Mead
December 21, 2005
" Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
Goethe
December 19, 2005
" Life is like a teacher; it teaches you many lessons. If you pay attention and are aware of the teacher of life you will graduate to a great life. If you are not aware, the teacher of life will teach you the same lessons over and over until you do pay attention."
Copyright © 1995 Mark Sternberg
December 19, 2005
" Happiness is something you create...Start Today!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michelle Ward --- Oklahoma
December 19, 2005
" Music is a language that not everyone can speak, but all can understand."
Copyright © 2005 Joseph Maas
This is an intriguing quote that popped into my head one day when I was "trying" to play my guitar. I think it captures the feeling of frustration that beginning and aspiring musicians feel, as well as articulates the ability of music (and those who have the god given, natural ability to speak it) to move us all.
December 14, 2005
" One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching."
John Dewey
December 14, 2005
" The pupil, who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
John Stuart Mill
December 14, 2005
" Thought is the parent of the deed."
Thomas Carlyle
December 12, 2005
" The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities."
Frank Barron
December 12, 2005
" There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
G.K. Chesterton
December 12, 2005
" Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
George Santayana
December 7, 2005
" It's always harder to pave the road than to walk down it."
Copyright © 2005 Amanda Hamm
It is our generation's job to pave the road of inclusive education.
December 7, 2005
" A belief that says: Change is possible because I will make it possible."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ajayadas S. --- India
December 7, 2005
" It is not a question how much a man knows but what use he makes of what he knows."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Striver Achiever --- Pakistan
This is the sort of site which will stimulate individuals to observe and think original ideas like it did in my case.
November 30, 2005
" Imagination is the strongest nation on earth."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Saleem Khan --- Sind, Pakistan
November 30, 2005
" When you know you're right, you acquire your might to fly high."
Written in 2005 by Adeleke Olugbenga --- Oyo, Nigeria
Understanding makes you outstanding. No knowledge is a waste. Wherever you are, seek wisdom.
November 30, 2005
" Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men."
Socrates
November 28, 2005
" Only with the absence of reason should one resort to action, in order to settle a dispute. When faced with a confrontation, make sure you are not lacking in either."
Written in 2005 by Patrick C. Field --- Canada
November 28, 2005
" Look through the mirror of education and see how your marks look."
Written in 2005 by Jeff Chelibei --- Uganda
November 28, 2005
" Education is the best investment that parents can give their children because profits are gained and you cannot go bankrupt."
Written in 2005 by Joeen Buensalido --- Philippines
November 21, 2005
" Education is the movement from darkness to light."
Allan Bloom
November 21, 2005
" Learning without thought is labor lost."
Confucius
November 21, 2005
" You teach best what you most need to learn."
Richard Bach
November 16, 2005
" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
Herbert Spencer
November 16, 2005
" Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan
November 16, 2005
" Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it."
Washington Irving
November 14, 2005
" Think about it... It is possible to achieve the impossible."
Written in 2005 by Pelin Kanra --- Australia
November 14, 2005
" Creativity is like a mirror through which you see your ideas."
Written in 2005 by Ibrahim Hena --- Nigeria
November 14, 2005
" Don't think of where you are, but think of where you want to be. It takes 20 years of hard work to be an overnight success."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Manjit Tendolkar --- India
November 9, 2005
" An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
Carl Jung
November 9, 2005
" He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
Joseph Joubert
November 9, 2005
" If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly."
Ashleigh Brilliant
November 7, 2005
" A lesson learned is wisdom earned."
Written in 2005 by P. Smith --- Minnesota
November 7, 2005
" To achieve the unthinkable, the unbelievable, it's precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.H. --- Pennsylvania
November 7, 2005
" You can't soar with the eagles if you are surrounded by turkeys."
Andrew Ballard --- Submitted by Sadi Ahmed --- Georgia
The person who quoted this was my high school teacher and he used it as a motivation.
November 2, 2005
" You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
Ethel Barrymore
November 2, 2005
" If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
Plato
November 2, 2005
" Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced."
John Dewey
October 31, 2005
" I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as of you."
George Bernard Shaw
October 31, 2005
" The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein
October 31, 2005
" Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?"
César Chávez
October 26, 2005
" The Lord & the teacher face me. Who should I kneel before? I pay my obeisance to you, my teacher, since you took me to the Lord."
Sufi Saint Kabir (celebrating the role of a teacher)
Submitted by J.M.Manchanda, New Delhi, India
October 26, 2005
" Hard work and dedication are the keys to excellence."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by C.M. --- Florida
October 26, 2005
" Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
Admiral Hyman Rickover
October 24, 2005
" Reward direction, not perfection."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jessica W. --- Florida
October 24, 2005
" Learning from which you have not experienced is no lesson at all, only a direction from which to learn."
Copyright © 2005 Gavin Landon
October 24, 2005
Past is a Noise
Present is a Choice
Future is in your Voice
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sujatha Kanthan --- India
October 19, 2005
" Knowledge is a vehicle...designed to take you from one place to another."
Copyright © 2005 Marc L. Dorcean
October 19, 2005
" It is better to aim high and miss the mark than aim low and hit it. You're better off getting close to your dream than not getting there at all."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jonathon Perez --- New York
This quote helped me get through some bad times when I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and I hope it will help you. It explains in one sentence to set high goals even if you might not make it, but in pursuing them, you will definitely come close.
October 19, 2005
" Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
Aristotle --- Submitted by Ajayadas S. --- Kerala, India
October 17, 2005
" Understanding is the shortest distance between two people."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vipool Gandhi --- Maharashtra, India
October 17, 2005
" Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for all believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
Apostle Paul --- Submitted by DanielYap JH --- Malaysia
October 17, 2005
" You'll never reach your limits, simply because when you think that you've reached them, you know that you've got more to give."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Rebecca W. --- Singapore
October 12, 2005
" There is a big difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
Potter Stewart
October 12, 2005
" Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
William Hazlitt
October 12, 2005
" A compliment is verbal sunshine."
Robert Orben
October 10, 2005
" Computer literacy is a necessity, not a luxury!"
Copyright © 1980 GwenDolyn Yarborough Hall
When I first started teaching people how to use computers (it was in the early 70s), there were a lot of people who suffered from cyberphobia-- the fear of computers. I started each class by stressing the importance of learning this new tool, yes tool. Over 2,000 years ago someone invented writing, then someone invented the pencil, then pen. The computer is also a tool which every industry will sooner or later be affected by. So, start learning this tool and the skills now.
October 10, 2005
" Education is the key that unlocks all doors."
Mij Ebank --- Submitted by JJ. Knabe --- Florida
October 10, 2005
" Opportunity is not like a shooting star, there every once and a while, but like the moon, there every night --- you just have to look for it."
Kayla Clafton --- Submitted by Rachel A., Age 15 --- Minnesota
October 5, 2005
" Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education."
Stephen R. Covey
October 5, 2005
" Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
Andrew Carnegie
October 5, 2005
" It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth."
Malcolm Forbes
October 3, 2005
" Tell your students how wonderful they truly are. In doing so, wonderful things are bound to become of them."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ryan Kelly --- NS, Canada
October 3, 2005
" Follow your passion for any work that you do. It makes work a lot easier and enjoyable. Work with no passion is dull, so never give it up for something else!"
Written in 2005 by Lydia Y., Age 16 --- Singapore
I have seen through a lot of people fail or lose interest in their work because they find it cumbersome, something not worth their effort and time. But, I have also seen people who have followed what they like to do. The difference is really drastic. Those who followed their passions turned out to find life more interesting than those who didn't. I hope you too will follow your passions, no matter how tough it is. After all, life isn't a bed of roses!
October 3, 2005
" The greatest thief of all time is procrastination."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jodi Richardson --- Qld, Australia
September 28, 2005
" Learning is a process of preparing to deal with new situations."
Alvin Toffler
September 28, 2005
" Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision."
Ayn Rand
September 28, 2005
" Always aim for achievement, and forget about success."
Helen Hayes
September 26, 2005
" Don't solve a problem by thinking about it; rather think about what the solution is."
Written in 2005 by Tigga Kefas --- Nassarawa, Nigeria
Always think about how to forge ahead and don't always reflect on the past because it doesn't have the solutions.
September 26, 2005
" An expert is he who has failed the most and knows by experience what doesn't work."
Copyright © 2005 Christina Gonzalez
September 26, 2005
" Expect success; success is expecting you!"
Written in 2004 by V. Kiser --- West Virginia
September 21, 2005
" The most significant part of one's growth lies in the lessons they learn."
Written in 2005 by T. H., Age 14 --- Alberta, Canada
I wrote this as part of a school essay, and it just stuck with me.
September 21, 2005
" There is a false pretense in society that in order to succeed others must fail. But the only way to truly succeed, and succeed with pleasure, is when others succeed with you."
Written in 2005 by Jordan D., Age 13 --- Pennsylvania
September 21, 2005
" You get nowhere with giving up, sitting on the sidelines, failing classes, losing in the game of life. Go forth with all that you can, and one time or another you will succeed with such greatness that no one will ever remember your faults."
Jeremy Adolphson --- Submitted by S.F., Age 16 --- Illinois
September 19, 2005
" As a former teacher and a successful lawyer, I have learned one thing about the world around us. We do not live in a world of reality; we live in a world of perceptions."
Written in 2005 by Justin S. --- Great Britain, United Kingdom
Being old enough to have experienced many changes in my life, I have realized that one thing has remained constant; it's my imagination. Something, I feel, that has faded in my colleagues and friends as the years rolled by. It's a sad thing to lose one's belief in the magic in the world around us, but remember my fellow teachers, it is not too late to instill this sense of imagination in the generations that come before us. You are the leaders of the world...YOU shape the hopeful fruits of our futures.
September 19, 2005
" A teacher never sees failure in their students; they only see what they have taught them."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pelin Kanra --- Prestons, Australia
September 19, 2005
" A good teacher recognizes that each pupil has a different talent lying hidden and unexplored. His duty is to unearth it and help it blossom."
Written in 2005 by J.M.Manchanda --- New Delhi, India
September 14, 2005
" Do not say, 'I did not do it', but rather, 'I can make it.'"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pritchard Ncube --- Midlands, Zimbabwe
September 14, 2005
" A true teacher is one who can reduce his age up to the age of student and after teaching is over, there must be growth in the age of the student."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dilip Patil --- Maharashtra, India
September 14, 2005
" We come across so many people in life, but only those are remembered as teachers who ignite us and help us shape our life ourselves."
Written in 2005 by Purnima Sharma --- New Delhi, India
Written after being inspired by few people who came into my life and helped me.
September 12, 2005
" If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. If it's done well, it's worth waiting for."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Rinku Jain --- Andhra Pradesh, India
My Husband uses this quote as signature in all his mail. It has helped him and me understand the importance of quality work better.
September 12, 2005
" If you at least put one foot forward, you're getting somewhere."
Written in 2005 by Emma H., Age 16 --- Ohio
September 12, 2005
" The best way to predict your future is to create it!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Elisabeth R. --- California
August 31, 2005
" The more successfully we adjust in difficult times, the stronger we get."
Spencer Johnson, M.D. --- Submitted by Zach Hibbs --- Kentucky
My mom bought me a book called Who Moved my Cheese, this was a quote in the calendar. Change is one thing we can't stop and learning to deal with it has brought me from an elementary education degree to teaching high school algebra!
August 31, 2005
" The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
Henry Ward Beecher
August 31, 2005
" The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people."
Peter McWilliams
August 29, 2005
" All professions can boast but the teacher taught them all."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Maxwell Ntiri --- Koforidua, Ghana
August 29, 2005
" When you reach a point in your life when you have to question the magic of creation, and all the world seems against you, remember: we do not live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions... it is up to you to decide, to which world you belong."
Written in 2005 by Justin S., Age 15 --- Indiana
August 29, 2005
" Even a bad man is better than a good book."
Maxim Gorky --- Submitted by Vinoy Kumar --- Kerala, India
This line is from letters of Gorky to Leo Tolstoy - it upholds humanity and its spirit.
August 24, 2005
" The most important thing about education is appetite."
Winston Churchill
August 24, 2005
" We cannot learn without pain."
Aristotle
August 24, 2005
" The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others."
Tryon Edwards
August 22, 2005
" I will forever remember my amazing teachers, just as much as the bad ones."
Amanda --- Submitted by J.R., Age 15 --- Ontario, Canada
I am a dancer. My dancer teacher told me this one day when I was having trouble with another teacher. She taught me that no matter how much I may dislike one teacher, I need to put as much love towards someone whom I like (which was her). She helped me to express myself within a positive environment!
August 22, 2005
" Why should we carry three types of worries on our shoulders: What happened, what is happening and what will happen? Worry about the present only!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Shiben Raina --- Rajasthan, India
August 22, 2005
" One should learn how to do a right thing before someone else advises you to do it."
Written in 2005 by Arinaitwe Ranger (Uganda)
August 17, 2005
" Don't get mad; get better."
Cindy Bristow --- Submitted by Tiffanie H. --- Texas
I am a dancer and whenever I feel upset, because I think I'm inadequate, I just remind myself that I need to work harder in order to achieve the greatness I desire, because nothing is impossible!
August 17, 2005
" There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learned a very, very small part of what it can do."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
August 17, 2005
" When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't."
Thomas Edison
August 15, 2005
" The man who never made a mistake, never made anything."
My Grandmother's words --- Submitted by Liz Darbey, North Wales, U.K
August 15, 2005
" The space around the thought is just as important as that inside the bubble."
Copyright © 2005 Lucy Cook
As a student studying Graphic Design, everything has to be taken into account, and the final idea isn't always the best. I thought about this quote when in bed trying to design a card with 'thought' involved in the design somehow.
August 15, 2005
" Success is not a matter of luck or genius. Success is the outcome of adequate preparation and indomitable determination."
Alcott --- Submitted by Mathi S., Age 15 --- Tamilnadu, India
It motivates young learners who feel studies are a burden.
August 10, 2005
" If a million people believe in a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pritchard Ncube --- Midlands, Zimbabwe
August 10, 2005
" To live life with no regrets is to understand the process of learning."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by M.C. --- Nova Scotia, Canada
August 10, 2005
" If you don't know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it."
Oprah Winfrey --- Submitted by D. Aaron --- Texas
This was in a supplement to the O (Oprah magazine) magazine - The Best of Oprah's -- What I Know For Sure. The quote comes from her February 2001 issue.
August 8, 2005
Everything I Needed to Know
Everything I needed to know,
I did not learn in Kindergarten.
Everything I needed to know,
I DID learn in first grade.
Everything I needed to know,
And some things I didn't,
My students taught me,
When we shared first grade.
Copyright © 2005 Debi Landrum (First Grade Teacher)
It is so amazing how trusting and loving first graders are. If you gain that trust, you will learn so much about the world, real and imagined. You learn more about their families than I know the family wants shared. First Grade is the BEST!!!
August 8, 2005
" Whatever the result may be, the one who sincerely tries with all the best efforts that he can input, will never be disappointed."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Hari Prasad M. --- Karnataka, India
August 8, 2005
" If you don't get at it, it won't get done."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by M.W. Colbert --- Ohio
August 3, 2005
" There may always be someone smarter and wiser than you, but if you believe in yourself and try hard, no one could ever achieve as much as you."
Written in 2005 by Courtney S., Age 14 --- Tennessee
Believe and think you can do it, and you WILL do it.
August 3, 2005
" Every education has difficulty. As the education gets higher, the difficulty gets harder and becomes a challenge. Every subsequent challenge brings enjoyment. Try to imagine enjoying your studies. This makes studies easier."
Copyright © 2005 Lee Chan Chean
I am progressing in High School and soon I will progress with Pre-U studies. The public test in my country is STPM. I know STPM is harder than A-Level. I am getting excited. I will carry on with STPM. I love this challenge. If I overcome it, for sure I will be very proud of myself.
August 3, 2005
" Excellence doesn't just happen; it's a decision you make every day."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Alicia K., Age 13 --- Lancashire, United Kingdom
August 1, 2005
" Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself."
Rod Serling
August 1, 2005
" You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."
Jim Stovall
August 1, 2005
" The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore."
Lyndon B. Johnson
July 27, 2005
" Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
George Bernard Shaw --- Submitted by Didi C. --- California
July 27, 2005
" The most valuable piece of real estate you own is the six inches between your ears."
Jodie Victor --- Submitted by Matt Phipps --- NSW, Australia
July 27, 2005
" Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Graeme Sullivan --- New Zealand
July 25, 2005
" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us."
Marcel Proust
July 25, 2005
" To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
July 25, 2005
" People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us."
Walt Disney
July 20, 2005
" We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
Maria Montessori
July 20, 2005
" I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son."
Thomas Wolfe
July 20, 2005
" Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."
Sidney J. Harris
July 18, 2005
" The only limit you have is the one you set for yourself. The sky is the limit, so pick up your wings of knowledge and take off!!"
Copyright © 2005 John Strickland
July 18, 2005
" 3D = Success: Determination, Dedication & Discipline are the three main pillars for Success."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vipul Rana --- Gujarat, India
July 18, 2005
" Change in society cannot be achieved with shouts or cries on the streets. If we want to change our society, let's start within our family."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dennis Escalona --- Negros Occidental, Philippines
July 13, 2005
" Don't let what you know be all you know."
Written in 2005 by Chris R. --- Kentucky
July 13, 2005
" Hard work with positive intention never FAILS."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Accel IT Academy --- Kerala, India
July 13, 2005
" A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."
James B. Stockdale
July 11, 2005
" Dare to be different."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.B., Age 18 --- Massachusetts
I know this quote seems kind of dumb and you've probably heard it a million times, but I can't help but think of it every time I'm walking into school or a party and I'm wearing something a little different or I did my hair a little different that day. I don't know, it makes me feel brave.
July 11, 2005
" The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell --- Submitted by Cray H., Age 17 --- Singapore
Learn to have doubts...It will make you much wiser and help you a lot in life.
July 6, 2005
" Success is your sweetest revenge."
Written in 2005 by Candice A., Age 18 --- Florida
I wrote this after a good friend wanted to give up on school, because everyone told him he wouldn't make it.
July 6, 2005
" Teachers are some of the most inspirational people, but some have forgotten just what that really means. Some might say that "to inspire" means to touch someone's heart and lift them from their emotional slump, but these people are but just a little off. "To inspire", is to hold another's heart in your hands, fill it with hope, believe in it, and watch it glow. "To inspire", is to lift a person from the depths of the deepest, coldest ocean and raise them to touch the hands of the angels in the heavens above. "To inspire", is to make all dreams not only seem possible, but be possible. Most of all, "to inspire" is to love. Teachers inspire simply be being there, like a beacon of light and hope, shining through the darkness."
Written in 2005 by Courtney S., Age 14 --- Tennessee
July 6, 2005
" They say children are the future, but really teachers are the key to the future."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Miracle Tillman --- California
June 29, 2005
" A society grows great when people plant trees, in whose shade they know they shall never sit!"
A Greek Proverb --- Submitted by Peter Anderson --- Florida
June 29, 2005
" Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Antariksh Tyagi --- Delhi, India
A coconut is hard on the outside and hard to crack. Similarly, challenges are hard to crack in the beginning.
June 29, 2005
" If you ever catch yourself saying "good enough" then obviously it isn't. Don't settle for anything less."
Written in 2005 by C. Krysta --- Alberta, Canada
June 27, 2005
" The best inspiration is not to outdo others but to outdo ourselves."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sarah M., Age 15 --- California
June 27, 2005
" Whatever path you may take simply love, laugh, explore, succeed and always remember your special moments."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Cassie F., Age 13 --- Washington
June 22, 2005
" Success comes to you when you take life as it comes your way; with a smile, courage, and respect. This way provides you with solutions."
Copyright © 2005 Rashmi Muktibodh
June 22, 2005
" I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
Florence Nightingale
June 22, 2005
" Knowledge is not just learning what to do, but what not to do."
Copyright © 2004 Darrell W. Boswell
June 20, 2005
" In order to be successful all you need is a little faith within yourself."
Written in 2005 by Ana R., Age 17 --- New York
Sometimes people need encouragement in order to believe in themselves.
June 20, 2005
" Aim for the stars because when you aim for the stars, you will reach the moon. When you aim for the moon, you fall; rest in the clouds. When you aim for the clouds, you clench the tree tops. When you aim for the tree tops, you fall on your butt. Maintain high hopes and you will succeed."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chris Ravat --- Western Australia, Australia
June 20, 2005
" A teacher is like a candle, which lights others in consummation."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by S.P. Sausan --- New Delhi, India
June 15, 2005
" It is easier to stay out in the lead than to fall behind and have to catch back up again. And that's UP2U !"
Copyright © 2005 Bill E. Williams
June 15, 2005
" Every day is a new day and that alone is enough reason to keep doing better."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jen Cajucom --- Manila, Philippines
June 15, 2005
" Don't judge a book by its cover, but by the words written in them."
Copyright © 2005 Jeffrey Wainright
June 13, 2005
" Great minds invent ideas. Normal minds discuss events. Poor minds criticize people."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Siddharth Gautam --- Punjab, India
June 13, 2005
" One's life would be monotonous if he gets everything without any obstacles."
Copyright © 2005 Raju Sohanda
June 13, 2005
" Failure has been a key to my success."
Written in 2005 by Oscar Cervantes
June 8, 2005
" With each new day, there is a new lesson...it prepares us for what is yet to come!"
Written in 2005 by E. Skiver
June 8, 2005
" A teacher is not someone who only teaches the subject, but teaches life as well."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Abbey D., Age 13 --- Montana
June 8, 2005
" Dare to try, dare to fail."
Written in 2005 by Ryan Lee
There is a proverb 'Learn From Mistakes'. In order to gain knowledge, we have to try. Who knows if what we are trying is a mistake? It is not always bad to fail at something. More or less, we could know what is the cause of the failure. That is the way we learn.
June 6, 2005
" Don't look at things as a problem. Look at them as a challenge, an opportunity and an experience."
Copyright © 2005 Millie Fusco
Always remember this and see how much more you get out of life.
June 6, 2005
How hard is to wake up? Not hard.
How hard is to get an education and be somebody? Really Easy.
Waking up - $5.00
Clothes - $125.00
Shoes - $89.00
Transportation and Gas - $12,000.00
Success - Priceless
Written in 2005 by Michael Miles
June 6, 2005
" You can always try harder."
Written in 2005 by M.S., Age 16 --- Wales, United Kingdom
Only when you have tried your hardest can you be happy with yourself.
May 25, 2005
" Unsuccessful people are the ones who wonder why they failed. Successful people are the ones who learn from their failure and turn it into success. For it's not why you fail, it's what you can learn from failing."
Written in 2005 by Andy H. --- Illinois
I wrote this quote in honor of my teacher, a very inspiring man who deserves great respect. This quote came to me while deciding what I wanted to do in my future and I hope for all that read this, that it helps you to some extent.
May 25, 2005
" A man without words is a man without thought, a man without thought is a man without knowledge, a man without knowledge is a man void of understanding and a man void of understanding shall never succeed."
Copyright © 2004 Edward Graham
May 25, 2005
" The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner."
Elbert Hubbard
May 23, 2005
" The biggest creature of deception and failure is yourself. If you allow it to grow, it will consume you. Tame it and control it. If not, it will do otherwise."
Copyright © 2004 Jonathan Tan, PhD
Adjunct Professor with PCEC-CS College in Shanghai, China
May 23, 2005
The six useful rules of life are as follows:
First, accept all our good and bad circumstances.
Second, always listen to your body.
Third, use common sense all the time.
Fourth, do not be afraid of mistakes.
Fifth, learning must be done everyday.
Lastly, don't think too much.
Copyright © 2005 Goh Kok Ming
May 23, 2005
" Opportunity is a dare - not a door."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by G. M., Age 17 --- NSW, Australia
Challenge yourself!
May 18, 2005
" Teachers not only teach history, algebra, and science, but what we call the intangibles: all about life, love, leadership, and happiness - you know, the things that really matter."
L. Swanzy --- Submitted by L.B., Age 14 --- Texas
To teach is to touch a life forever
May 18, 2005
" Be who you are and do it on purpose."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by M.K., Age 15 --- Ohio
May 18, 2005
" Asking questions may make you seem stupid for a moment. But not asking questions will make you seem stupid even beyond the grave."
Copyright © 2005 Barry White
May 16, 2005
" Where there is interest, there is learning."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by David Wright --- New Zealand
May 16, 2005
" Never give up!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by C.R., Age 16 --- New Zealand
This has helped me huge amounts over the past few years. I heard it when a teacher said it to me after I gave up during a game. It is now something that is always in my mind, even when the going gets tough, it keeps me going strong. I can only advise everyone else to do the same and keep on keeping on because things will always get better. Pain is only temporary memories last forever.
May 16, 2005
Children of today
A waste mind
Is a terrible kind
Wasting your mind
Equals a lifetime bind!
So-children of today
Don't waste your mind
Get your education
And let your mind shine!
Copyright © 2005 Bridgette J. Wilcox
May 11, 2005
" The gift of a great teacher is creating an awareness of greatness in others."
The Tao of Teaching
May 11, 2005
" You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity."
Marie Curie
May 11, 2005
" Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world."
Edmund Burke
May 9, 2005
" Maturity is tested by applying the things you have learned in life, not by merely teaching it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jennette Cajucom --- Manila, Philippines
May 9, 2005
" Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
Bob Talbert
May 9, 2005
" It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
Claude Bernard
May 4, 2005
" Lead yourself but follow the wise one."
Copyright © 2005 David Torrelli
May 4, 2005
" A man that has done his best has done enough."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Elijah M., Age 16 --- Australian External Territories
My teacher at school always says this to motivate us to always strive to do our best and I have found it to be very true and helpful.
May 4, 2005
" I once had a seminary teacher who asked us, "Whoever said life was fair?" Nobody answered because we knew that it isn't. The teacher replied to us after a couple seconds of silence, "I did." He was right in a way. Life will be fairer and a bit more rewarding if you put in the effort to make your life and the lives around you a more enjoyable experience."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Zach B., Age 16 --- Arizona
May 2, 2005
" Teachers can teach but only the student can do something with what they have learned."
Written in 2005 by Nick B., Age 16 --- Ohio
May 2, 2005
" Deadlines follow Doppler Effect -- the closer they get, the more pressing they seem."
Written by Sairam Chavali --- Andhra Pradesh, India
I don't remember exactly when I started using this phrase but I have used it in many training sessions to emphasize the importance of Time Management to groups.
May 2, 2005
" Don't settle with just one thing if you know you can do better."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Amanda B., Age 14 --- Arkansas
April 27, 2005
" Shift your problems to challenges. When you have problems, you worry about them. When you have challenges - you are working, applying and attacking your plan to get results. This shift in thinking from problems to challenges is important in making tension an asset."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nitasha Kapoor --- Delhi, India
April 27, 2005
" Education is helping the child realize his potentialities."
Erich Fromm
April 27, 2005
" You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."
Elbert Hubbard
April 25, 2005
" Can't never did nothing and won't never will!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lisa Thomas --- Georgia
April 25, 2005
" Learning is discovering that something is possible."
Fritz Perls
April 25, 2005
" Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten percent."
Norman Vincent Peale
April 20, 2005
" If you think you can do it, you can. If you believe you can do it, you will. If you trust you can do it, you will make a difference."
Copyright © 2005 Catherine Ellis
April 20, 2005
" Why is a good question; why don't you just ask?"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Shannon B., Age 14 --- California
April 20, 2005
" Everyone knew the apple fell...But Newton was the one to ask WHY?"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by U.K. --- Quebec, Canada
This quote inspires me to observe things and ask questions whenever necessary to gain more knowledge.
April 18, 2005
" Learning must be done all the time because knowledge is the greatest asset that enables you to see the truth."
Copyright © 2005 Goh Kok Ming
April 18, 2005
" Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ajayadas S. ---Kerala, India
April 18, 2005
" I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
Lawrence Durrell
April 13, 2005
" In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer
April 13, 2005
" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
April 13, 2005
" Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."
Marian Wright Edelman
April 11, 2005
" I can teach any student in a chair."
Copyright © 2005 Vic Picinich
As a College Instructor for over twelve (12) years, I needed a brief motivational quote to remind me that I can only teach students that are present for class. Furthermore, I must reinforce the belief that I can teach *any* student in my class. As an aside, the qualities that make up a good student are:
1.Strong Attendance
2. Few Tardies
3. Dependable Transportation
4. Survival Cash
5. Stable Childcare
6.Livable Housing
7. Homelife Support
8. Good Attitude ----------------------- = Good Grades!
April 11, 2005
" A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change."
Katharine Butler Hathaway
April 11, 2005
" Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
Blaise Pascal
April 6, 2005
" Teachers are more important than a parent because a parent gives life and a teacher helps them live it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Hannah M., Age 13 --- United Kingdom
I think that this quote would inspire people to go out and live life.
April 6, 2005
" A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."
Mohammed
April 6, 2005
" Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
Meister Eckhart
April 4, 2005
" The human mind like the fragile, living marine sponge. It must be watered at the "fountain of knowledge", if it is expected to expand to it's full growth and capacity, or it will simply be left to waste away to dry."
Copyright © 2005 Joseph P. Martino
April 4, 2005
" Do not be afraid of being different. Everyone else is."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by L. Liabres --- Philippines
April 4, 2005
" Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
March 23, 2005
" A teacher is a gardener. Your students are the flowers. Nurture them with knowledge, and watch them grow."
Copyright © 2005 Angie Lankford
March 23, 2005
" They know enough who know how to learn."
Henry Adams
March 23, 2005
" We need to be the authors of our own life."
Peter Senge
March 21, 2005
" Don't confuse your special innate talents with the many skills you've learned. When you are looking for your life's work, talent is much a better indicator than skill."
Paul Huff --- Submitted by Brad Boughman --- North Carolina
March 21, 2005
" The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best."
Edmund Burke
March 21, 2005
" To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge."
Phillips Brooks
March 18, 2005
" Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn."
Greek Proverb --- Submitted by Heather M., Age 15 --- Georgia
I chose this quote because I am taking a lot of difficult classes at school but I know that once I learn these difficult subjects, then it will benefit me later on in life.
March 18, 2005
" Live life to the moment but don't let the moment slip out of youhand."
Mrs. Youngs --- Submitted by Dana L., Age 14 --- New k
ay w 7th grade teacher noticed and she told me this quote. I didn't understand, at that time, but later on it made me open my eyes.
March 18, 2005
" Don't be discouraged by failures, problems and difficulties. Go through and you'll see there's a beauty behind it.
"
Copyright © 2005 Rowena Lopena
After all of the struggles and strains I've been through, I came up with this quote and presented it in my portfolio.
March 14, 2005
" Every time a teacher gives knowledge to a new student, that knowledge is recycled. Once you give someone knowledge, it continues on; teaching is a legacy."
Copyright © 2005 Mayra Rodriguez
March 14, 2005
" Feed your brain and grow within."
Written in 2005 by Larissa B. --- Texas
March 14, 2005
" We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."
Calvin Coolidge
March 9, 2005
" Believe you can, if you know you can't!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Roxanne Ables --- Mississippi
This was my father-in-law's favorite thing to tell his children. He passed away in the early 70's but I think of him every time I use this quote and being a teacher, I use it quite often.
March 9, 2005
" Wisdom does not come from knowing all, but from knowing that there is still something to be learned."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by T.G. --- Brazil
March 9, 2005
" Children need models rather than critics."
Joseph Joubert
March 7, 2005
" Say can't without the "T" and successful you will be."
Susan Snyder --- Submitted by C.S.
Susan said this when people would say, "I can't". It would make them think, "Hey, maybe if I try, I can".
March 7, 2005
" When in school, teachers look at the students who are willing to work hard and do work hard. Sooner or later the other students will notice that one kid, who always works for what he wants, and will want to be more like him."
Written in 2005 by Emily --- Nebraska
March 7, 2005
" If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
March 2, 2005
" Be wary of the path and haste in which you travel. Life is not about how fast you reach your destination(s), but rather what you see, feel, experience and learn along the way."
Copyright © 2005 Ronald J. Champion
My awakened thought on 1/12/2005 @ 2:00 a.m.
March 2, 2005
" One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people."
Grant Fairley --- Submitted by Alex Douglas --- Ontario, Canada
March 2, 2005
" When you think that you have exhausted all possibilities, remember ONE LAST THING:
You _______________________haven't!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Gary Stevenson --- United Kingdom
This is the most inspiring quote I have ever heard and live by it every day!
February 28, 2005
" Teachers are the earthquakes; the students are the aftershocks."
Marc Smith --- Submitted by Nikki G., Age 16 --- California
Mr. Smith was my science and math teacher. Hhe got fired for teaching the way he did. He was not like other teachers, he was unique. He treated all of his students like peers not students. I have learned so much from him. He is an inspiration. Just to meet this man is an honor but to have him teach me is more than anything I could ever want. Mr. Smith is our earthquake; we are the aftershocks --- just smile and nod.
February 28, 2005
" Results are better than intentions."
Dr. Phil --- Submitted by Erika C. --- California
February 28, 2005
" All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
February 23, 2005
" He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Marcus M. --- Washington
February 23, 2005
" The key to solving problems is not through the heart, not by one's schematic mind, nor by a person's points of view; it is through Mathematics!"
Virgin Lions --- Submitted by QA Agamata --- Philippines
February 23, 2005
" Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 21, 2005
" Luck is an ideal whereby opportunity meets preparedness and favored by correctness."
Copyright © 2000 S`bongiseni Nkosi
This quote was formulated after a lengthy debate on the definition and existence of luck. As I was relaxing later on trying to figure out the solution, I came up with this definition.
February 21, 2005
" Taking responsibility is a dimension of maturity, being accountable is maturity."
Copyright © 2005 Dan Yovich
I sent this out to my students who recently procrastinated on an assignment.
February 21, 2005
" Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and education for making a living."
James Mason Wood
February 16, 2005
" The only thing that's the 'end of the world,' is......... the end of the world!"
Written by PJ Bahr --- South Dakota
I said this to my kids as they were growing up and would come home feeling like it was "the end of the world," due to a poor grade, a teacher's pessimistic remark or a peer's "pressure."
February 16, 2005
" The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy --- Submitted by J. Griffin --- Georgia
February 16, 2005
" Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."
Allan Bloom
February 14, 2005
" In order to make a difference, you must be different."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Katie L., Age 14 --- North Carolina
February 14, 2005
" Learn from your mistakes so that you may teach others what you have learned."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jacob Stogner --- Texas
I don't know if I heard this before or not but I thought of this when my friend was telling me about his mistakes he has made with his relationship.
February 14, 2005
" The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein
February 9, 2005
" People usually say, 'You are born to be a teacher', but I think the other way around. I choose to be a teacher and I learn to be a GREAT TEACHER."
Copyright © 2004 C.T. Haniza
February 9, 2005
" The limit of the function- teaching as it approaches zero is infinity."
Virgin Lions --- Submitted by M. A. --- Palawan Keme, Philippines
The quote is applicable for all {x/x=> mathematics teachers} and others who can understand the function.
February 9, 2005
" As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious."
Albert Schweitzer
February 7, 2005
" Failure is simply a result that differs from the one you expected."
Copyright © 2003 Nisandeh Neta
February 7, 2005
" Hay in the barn may be like money in the bank, but knowledge unlocks a vault of treasures."
Copyright © 2004 Rev. Darrell W. Boswell
February 7, 2005
" If someone thinks they have all the answers, it just means that they haven't been asked all the questions."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chester M. --- Ontario, Canada
February 2, 2005
A simple sure shot success formula which helped me in life:
1. Work Hard
2. There is no substitute for Hard Work
3. Hard Work ALWAYS pays
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Steve P. --- Hyderabad, India
February 2, 2005
" Great things are accomplished with good planning and not quite enough time."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jerry Otterson
Architects comment to contractors who were complaining about construction schedule.
February 2, 2005
" To get to the top of a tree is easy but you have to climb up the tree first."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by I.I. --- Denmark
My grandmother told me this when I was a little child in Africa
January 31, 2005
" The lessons learned by students are not always the lessons the teacher intended to teach."
Copyright © 1972 Dennis Gable
January 31, 2005
" It is our duty to change the world."
Sydney Poitier in the 1967 movie To Sir, With Love" --- Submitted by ELizabeth Foy --- Georgia
January 26, 2005
" Trying times are for doing just that....TRYING!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ashley M., Age 15 --- Michigan
One of my family members told me this before my final exams. It really made a big difference!
January 26, 2005
" Think out of the bowl... don't be like everyone else...there is nothing special about being like someone else...and if you work hard enough, you will be magnificent...and that is the greatest you can be."
Brenda Clark, Speech Coach --- Submitted by L.W., Age 13 --- Texas
My theater coach says this to us all the time. She is a really great coach and teaches us many great life tips. Thanks, Mrs. Clark, for everything!
January 26, 2005
" Knowledge generation really only occurs in teams where people engage in doing meaningful work."
Paul Senge
January 24, 2005
" The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love, and the power to make a difference!"
Sasha Azevedo --- Submitted by Jonathan R. --- Ontario, Canada
January 24, 2005
" We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
Ursula K. Le Guin --- Submitted by Jasmine L., Age 15 --- Singapore
January 19, 2005
" Children are uncut jewels with invaluable potential. Teachers are jewelers with tools for making futures priceless."
Copyright © 2003 Angela Harper Brooks
January 19, 2005
" Teaching is so enjoyable it is almost a sin, but yet a sin that raises and educates the next generation."
Copyright © 2004 Melanie Griffith
January 19, 2005
" The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."
Helen Keller
January 17, 2005
" Sometimes we are too busy staring in one direction, having been pacified with what has been and what is, that we miss out on what surrounds us and what could be or what might have been."
Copyright © 2004 Ronald J. Champion
January 17, 2005
" I don't drive the bus; I honk the horn."
Stanley Zazarinski --- Submitted by JEC --- Texas
January 12, 2005
" Success is what everybody has. You have to go to school and find it."
Copyright © 2004 Helen Brown
January 12, 2005
" When you change the life of a child...then you change the world!!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lindsay Bumpus --- Florida
January 12, 2005
" The heart knows no boundaries. A teenager defines them."
Written in 2004 by Victoria P., Age 16 --- Arkansas
January 10, 2005
" Try to avoid the most natural of all human tendencies; the nonchalant habit of resisting and rejecting out of hand, what we fail to appreciate or comprehend."
Copyright © 2004 Joseph P. Martino
January 10, 2005
" Man does not learn anything, if he is not challenged. But if a man is challenged, he shall be rewarded with confidence, optimism, and intelligence. The road to success is not given to man. Man has to earn his way to this road and when he gets there he shall expect the unexpected, and desire the undesirable. When he has earned his way to the road of success he can do nothing but wait, wait to be challenged, and wait to succeed to the next level of success. Life is like a video game, even though you have succeeded there are many more levels to succeed in."
Copyright © 2004 Shay Noori
January 10, 2005
" Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than right answers."
Josef Albers --- Submitted by H.Y. --- Ohio
It's true, one can't learn by memorizing, one learns by experiencing.
December 22, 2004
" In the face of adversity, it takes courage and maturity to keep a positive attitude, work for the common good of the team, and set aside personal differences. The character of a man is often defined by his actions, his ability to lead, and his capacity for learning."
Copyright © 2004 Rose Prejean-Harris
December 22, 2004
" The things you do today that you don't have to, will determine what you will have when you are no longer able to!"
Jim McCune --- Submitted by Rick LoBianco --- Illinois
December 22, 2004
" The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
Thomas Paine
December 20, 2004
" If we don't make mistakes we are not doing anything."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by George Waller --- Victoria, Australia
December 20, 2004
" When you are talking about people and describing what you think of them, you are actually describing yourself; you just don't know it."
Written in 2004 by Jaclyn B., Age 14 --- New Jersey
When you say things about others, it's usually because you are self-conscious or jealous of them; and what you say about them is, sometimes, what you don't like about yourself.
December 15, 2004
A GREAT TEACHER WILL:
*Teach with all his heart,
*Teach with full of love and joy,
*Always gives faith and hope to his students,
*Always believes that his students will perform their best,
*And never gives up teaching until his students receive awards!
Karen John --- Submitted by Karen T., Age 16 --- Sabah, Malaysia
December 15, 2004
" Your hard work should be always a vector quantity; i.e. with a magnitude and direction."
Copyright © 1999 Akhilesh Jain
A scalar quantity is only having magnitude but no direction, and the hard worker is no more successful. He is not more than a donkey.
December 13, 2004
" Urging all of us to open out minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new vision. I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions--a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom."
Bell Hooks --- Submitted by Amy B., Age 18 --- Indiana
December 13, 2004
" Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Gina Hamilton --- California
December 8, 2004
" If teacher wants to learn more, then they can learn from the child."
Written in 2004 by Anuj Gupta --- Delhi, India
December 8, 2004
" It's never too late to start over again."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by A.B. --- British Columbia, Canada
December 6, 2004
" There is a place in the world for everyone; a place where we all feel safe, where people know us and still like us or at least tolerate us. Seeing this reminds me that people all come into the world the same way but where we differ, is when we find that place where we belong, where we feel safe and people know us, and still like us or at least tolerate us."
Copyright © 2004 Marlene Saengerhausen
December 6, 2004
" Seek education rather than grades. Seek your best rather than someone else's. Seek friendship rather than acceptance. Seek worth rather than rank. Seek to build rather than to tear down. Seek laughter and love in spite of pain and you will have learned to live."
Jaqui Sheehan --- Submitted by Tasha S., Age 16 --- Indiana
December 1, 2004
" If a child can't learn the way we teach, then... We had better start teaching the way the child can learn!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Stacey Ravas --- Ontario, Canada
December 1, 2004
" The difference between falling and failing is whether or not you choose to get up."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Natalie B., Age 16 --- Illinois
November 29, 2004
" Never was there a person from which you didn't learn or teach something."
Written in 2004 by Stephanie S., Age 15, Illinois
Never overlook anyone; enemy, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend whoever. People are always changing your life even when you don't notice it. Remember that the smallest or largest thing you do has an affect on someone.
November 29, 2004
" Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
Charles Mingus
November 24, 2004
" There are times when people expect so much from our side, but we take that for granted mainly because we say we don't have time. It is only when we get time, those people are lost. So never let those whom we love get lost."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by A S --- Punjab, Pakistan
November 24, 2004
" If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny."
W. Clement Stone
November 22, 2004
" Be at your best always, for you are always being watched and followed by your pupils."
Copyright © 2004 Amy Nagan
November 22, 2004
" If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life."
Seneca
November 17, 2004
" The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge."
Swami Vivekananda --- Submitted by Aru Mugam --- India
November 17, 2004
" In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate."
Descartes
November 15, 2004
" There are no ugly people in the world, just ugly attitudes!!!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by A.G. --- Texas
November 15, 2004
" Continuous efforts, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."
Winston Churchill
November 10, 2004
" Sometimes we have to clear away the 'cobwebs' from our minds, to be able to move forward and grow."
Copyright © 2003 Michelle W. Seamons
November 10, 2004
" Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Charles Darwin
November 8, 2004
" Dandelions are the best flower-they never stop growing; be the best dandelion you can be-never stop learning."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sam B., Age 13 --- Kansas
So true! Even though some teens think and act like they know everything, your life adventure is never really over.
November 8, 2004
" Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
Eleanor Roosevelt
November 3, 2004
" When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."
The Talmud
November 3, 2004
" Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning."
John Dewey
November 1, 2004
" The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
Arthur Schopenhauer
November 1, 2004
" Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves."
Jean Piaget
October 27, 2004
" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
Victor Hugo
October 27, 2004
" Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey
October 25, 2004
" Often it is not until we are in complete darkness that we begin to gain a better insight into ourselves and the direction we are going, guided by none other than the rhythm of our beating hearts."
Copyright © 2004 Ronald J. Champion
October 25, 2004
" To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-- that is being educated."
Edith Hamilton
October 20, 2004
" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso
October 20, 2004
" Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier."
Charles F. Kettering
October 18, 2004
" No matter what subject you teach, your influence will never stop there."
Written in 2004 by C.B., Age 14 --- New Zealand
October 18, 2004
" Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection."
Soichiro Honda
October 13, 2004
" Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato
October 13, 2004
" One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen."
Philip Wylie
October 6, 2004
" Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."
Maya Angelou
October 6, 2004
" Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."
Horace Mann
October 4, 2004
" The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne --- Submitted by Brandon R., Age 17 --- Tennessee
October 4, 2004
" When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
John Ruskin
September 29, 2004
" Forget not the depth of the mind and its capacity to look beyond the hands that feed it or the clouds that often hide the stars that decorate the heavenly skies and obscure the answers that we are often seeking."
Copyright © 2004 Ronald J. Champion
September 29, 2004
" Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves."
Eleanor Roosevelt
September 27, 2004
" Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day."
Booker T. Washington
September 27, 2004
" Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone."
John A. Hannah
September 22, 2004
" Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
Matsuo Basho
September 22, 2004
" Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
Annie Sullivan
September 20, 2004
" Expert wordsmithing is when the skillful writer retrieves a white hot idea from the furnace of creativity, and with each carefully directed blow of the literary hammer, shapes the still malleable idea against the anvil of proper language convention to forge a fitting vessel of creative communication."
Copyright © 2004 Glen Cook
September 20, 2004
" Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
September 15, 2004
" Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
Edmund Burke
September 15, 2004
" If students do not learn the way we teach, then let us teach the way they learn."
Kenneth Dunn
September 13, 2004
" One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
Carl Sagan
September 13, 2004
" Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."
Clarence Darrow
September 8, 2004
" The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done."
Jean Piaget
September 8, 2004
" I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
Mahatma Gandhi
September 4, 2004
" Everyone is smart/stupid, silly/serious, good/bad, sweet/mean, guilty/innocent, ambitious/lazy, happy/sad... People are complex, multi-faceted, and ever-changing. None of us is ever the same from moment to moment. If you must judge others, judge them only on the sum of their moments, the grand total of their lives, not on their actions at a single point in time."
Copyright © Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant
September 4, 2004
" Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny."
Peter Senge
August 30, 2004
" I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education."
Thomas Jefferson
August 30, 2004
" A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."
James B. Stockdale
August 25, 2004
" Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
Norman Cousins
August 25, 2004
" To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."
Kahlil Gibran
August 23, 2004
" There are three ways to be innovative about the way you do things. Think laterally, Think horizontally, Now think about the third one."
Copyright © 2004 Sarat Chandra Das
Coined while I took my passage through the lift.
August 23, 2004
" No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back."
John Holt
August 18, 2004
" Only soup cans need labels, not people."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jocelyn R., Age 13 --- Arizona
August 16, 2004
" If you are rich in knowledge, you can demand the universe."
Copyright © 2004 Chinnappan Baskar
August 16, 2004
" Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Marie Curie
August 16, 2004
" Doubt grows with knowledge."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
August 11, 2004
" The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
Christopher Morley
August 11, 2004
" He who is ashamed of asking, is ashamed of learning."
Danish Proverb
August 11, 2004
" Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
Immanuel Kant
August 9, 2004
" One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil."
Friedrich Nietzsche --- Submitted by Y. Luu
August 9, 2004
" I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
Albert Einstein
August 9, 2004
" We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
August 4, 2004
" See a man that will become a good teacher; he's a man whose heart is large enough to learn from anybody and everybody, not minding age or sex."
Copyright © 2004 Tayo Jackson
I have been in the place of teaching and leading people and sometimes I've failed. This was the very first thing I learned afterwards.
August 4, 2004
" We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
August 4, 2004
" It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best."
W. Edwards Deming
July 28, 2004
" Get better. Be good. Have fun."
Copyright © 1993 Robert DiDonato
Short, motivational phrase for students to remember
July 28, 2004
" Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."
Napoleon Hill
July 28, 2004
" The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."
Jean Piaget
July 26, 2004
" Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."
Terrance
July 26, 2004
" Each of us makes a difference. It is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped."
Robert F. Kennedy
July 26, 2004
" Your work may be finished someday, but your education, never."
Alexandre Dumas the Elder
July 21, 2004
" The sterling qualities of a teacher do not depend from the profound knowledge and talent but from the 'charisma' that offers/brings motivation, inspiration, wisdom, and touch for everybody."
Ryan T. Jubilo
Each of us is a teacher of our life. But in this world, only rare and few can be considered and defined as teachers for others. It is only for those privileged and blessed persons who have the gifts of charisma.
July 21, 2004
" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
George Santayana
July 21, 2004
" If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."
Jim Rohn
July 19, 2004
" When you do more than you're paid to do, you will eventually be paid more for what you do."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dan Meneley --- California
I learned this quote early in my business career and have had it with me ever since. I have no idea where it came from.
July 19, 2004
" Learning from which you have not experienced is no lesson at all, only a direction from which to learn."
Copyright © 2002 Gavin Landon
School and books are good direction, but experience is still required.
July 19, 2004
" You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"
Donald Trump
July 14, 2004
" The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the houseof their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind."
Kahlil Gibran
July 14, 2004
" You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
July 14, 2004
" To tolerant everything is to teach nothing."
F. J. Kinsman
July 12, 2004
" Although I might not make a good schoolteacher, the things I do, people can learn from me. The mistakes I make are learning tools for me as well as others."
Copyright © 2004 Aaron Miller
July 12, 2004
" What is the hardest task in the world? To think."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 12, 2004
" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
John Dewey
June 30, 2004
" Learn something new everyday of your life. Be kind and generous with your knowledge. Share, help everyone you can. You never know what it could mean to someone who isn't as fortunate. It may or may not enrich their lives but I can guarantee it will enrich yours."
Copyright © 2004 Marlene Blaszczyk
June 28, 2004
" Genius is a blessing, not paid and copied."
Copyright © 2004 Hendry Izaac Elim
June 23, 2004
" When you are very young all you think about is the future...
"What will I be when I grow up?"
When you are in the middle age all you think about is the past....
"Remember when we?...."
When you are much older and wiser, all you think about is the present because that's all that really matters."
Written in 2004 by Leslie M. --- Pennsylvania
June 23, 2004
" Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn
June 23, 2004
" For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 21, 2004
" Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures."
Eugene P. Bertin
June 21, 2004
" The things which hurt, instruct."
Benjamin Franklin
June 21, 2004
" Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
Robert Quillen
June 16, 2004
" Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."
Charles Caleb Colton
June 16, 2004
" Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes ... different points of view."
Robert Maynard Hutchins
June 16, 2004
" Those who trust us educate us."
George Eliot
June 14, 2004
" If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
June 14, 2004
" What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."
Karl Menninger
June 14, 2004
" The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
Ellen Key
June 9, 2004
" I never learned anything while talking."
Larry King ---Submitted by L.H. --- California
As teachers, we must submit our listening ears to our students. One may not know what we can learn from our students. Often times, they are a greater wealth of information than any other source.
June 9, 2004
" The ability to learn is older--as it is also more widespread--than is the ability to teach."
Margaret Mead
June 9, 2004
" Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."
William Arthur Ward
May 26, 2004
" Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny."
Carl Schurz
May 26, 2004
" I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..."
Charles Dickens
May 26, 2004
" If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
David Carradine
May 19, 2004
" Good teachers learn from their mistakes. Great teachers learn from other's mistakes."
Copyright © 2004 Reed Markham, Ph.D.
May 19, 2004
" Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better."
Sylvia Porter
May 19, 2004
" Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."
Sidney Hook
May 17, 2004
" Accurate knowledge is the life-blood of Nature. Publication is only the body of Nature. The peer-reviewed process (in publication) is the control of the progress of Nature."
Copyright © 2004 Hendry Izaac Elim
May 17, 2004
" Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart."
R. Buckminster Fuller
May 17, 2004
" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
May 12, 2004
" The probability of success is determined by the probability of error."
Copyright © 2004 Dr. D.P. Tripathy
May 12, 2004
" If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
Norman Douglas
May 12, 2004
" Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover, with accuracy, the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
Plato
May 10, 2004
" It is not just the concept of "thinking outside of the box" instead of on the inside. If you DO think on the inside, think in the middle where you can see each of the corners. And even better, if you think OUTSIDE the box, do it at and angle where you really are getting the real view of the entire thing."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Meredeth H., Age 15 --- Utah
May 10, 2004
" Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."
Samuel Smiles
May 10, 2004
" Our best chance for happiness is education."
Mark VanDorn
May 5, 2004
" The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 5, 2004
" The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience."
Carl Rogers
May 5, 2004
" To say "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge!"
Phillips Brooks
May 3, 2004
" Our basic building block is laid upon knowledge and education; without the two, we are nothing."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jessica Mkari --- New South Wales, Australia
May 3, 2004
" A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."
Louis A. Berman
May 3, 2004
" Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement!"
Edward Blishen
April 28, 2004
" Problems are like pencils; you can write them, but you can erase them."
Copyright © 2004 Angelo Jamora
April 28, 2004
" I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners."
Benjamin Barber
April 28, 2004
" In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."
Jacques Barzun
April 26, 2004
" ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE is the LIFE-BLOOD of Science, PUBLICATION is the BODY of Science, and the PEER-REVIEW PROCESS in a scientific paper is a QUALITY-CONTROL of Science."
Copyright © 2004 Hendry Izaac Elim
April 26, 2004
" Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 26, 2004
" What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
Harriet Martineau
April 21, 2004
" People tell us not to look back, but sometimes we have to. This is so we can see how beautiful the canvas of our life has become. Remember all the little splotches and smears of paint - all the little mistakes we made, won't matter in the end, not when you see the whole big beautiful picture."
Written in 2004 by Melyssa H., Age 13 --- New York
My art teacher inspired me to write this. One day we were working on huge canvas paintings in class and he saw people were getting frustrated with all of their itsy-bitsy mistakes. He made us all stop and back away from our paintings and we saw how beautiful they really were.
April 21, 2004
" I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
Vincent Van Gogh
April 21, 2004
" I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
April 19, 2004
" Life is like a parabola; it has its ups and downs!"
Written in 2003 by M.M., Age 15 --- Pennsylvania
April 19, 2004
" Take the attitude of a student; never be to big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
Og Mandino
April 19, 2004
" Everyone who remembers his own educational experience remembers teachers, not methods and techniques."
Sidney Hook
April 14, 2004
" Every child has a gift; each just opens them at different times."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mallauri E., Age 17 --- Colorado
April 14, 2004
" Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."
Thomas Moore
April 14, 2004
" The entire object of TRUE EDUCATION is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."
John Ruskin
April 12, 2004
" The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."
Douglas Everett
April 12, 2004
" An investment in knowledge pays the best return."
Benjamin Franklin
April 12, 2004
" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
Lyndon B. Johnson
April 9, 2004
" I believe in freedom of silence as much as I believe in freedom of speech.
Silence does not always mean guilt, for many it is the best way of comfort."
Copyright © 2004 Leonel Juvier
Every time I stay quiet, people automatically assume that it's my fault. But what they don't realize is that I simply don't care to talk about something, especially when it doesn't concern me.
April 9, 2004
" If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!"
W. Clement Stone
April 9, 2004
" Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
Anton Chekhov
April 5, 2004
" The most difficult obstacle we must overcome in life is the one that lies within us; doubt in our abilities and ourselves. Once we start believing in our abilities and ourselves, we can accomplish what we once thought was impossible and achieve our goals and dreams."
D.B. --- Submitted by E.B. --- Texas
April 5, 2004
" Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
Alexander Pope
April 5, 2004
" The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
Carl Rogers
March 31, 2004
" The path to your destiny begins with the steps you take today."
Copyright © 2002 Jerry V. Suarez MSGT/USMC
I am an Instructor for the Marine Corps and used this quote one day and have used it ever since.
March 31, 2004
" Don't just learn something from every experience; learn something positive."
Al Neuharth
March 31, 2004
" Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently."
Confucius
March 29, 2004
" A fool denies the chance to ask even the most foolish questions."
Written in 2004 by Karina M., Age 17 --- Georgia
March 29, 2004
" What we do not understand we do not possess."
Goethe
March 29, 2004
" The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
George Santayana
March 24, 2004
" He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
Joseph Joubert
March 24, 2004
" Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment."
Gail Sheehy
March 24, 2004
" Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so let us all be thankful."
Buddha
March 22, 2004
" Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."
Marcus Aurelius
March 22, 2004
" Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope."
Arnold Glasow
March 22, 2004
" Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
William Saroyan
March 17, 2004
" If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."
Tryon Edwards
March 17, 2004
" I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."
Henry Emerson Fosdick
March 17, 2004
" Don't be discouraged by failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error, which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
John Keats
March 15, 2004
" With a good teacher, students will learn, and they will love and respect their teacher. With a great teacher, they will learn to love and respect themselves."
Copyright © 2004 Erin Christian
I teach elementary children with special needs, and I know many teachers who are Great.
March 15, 2004
" Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
Lady Bird Johnson
March 15, 2004
" The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
Don Herold
March 10, 2004
" Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it."
Soren Kierkegaard
March 10, 2004
" The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."
Kahlil Gibran
March 10, 2004
" Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival."
W. Edwards Deming
March 8, 2004
ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST!
When you think it doesn't matter if you fail or pass the test.
Keep in mind this simple reason you should always be your best.
While the whole world may not notice if you try to give your all,
There is a special person to whom it matters if you fall.
A little voice within you - which directs your thoughts each day -
Will make the final judgment if you won or lost today.
Never can you fail yourself if you give it all you've got.
The world extends a hand to you when you give life your best shot.
For all that really matters when you're finished with the test
Is not the final score at all - but did you do your best.
Copyright © 2004 Tom Krause
March 8, 2004
" The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'"
Ludwig Van Beethoven
March 8, 2004
" Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently."
Zig Ziglar
March 3, 2004
" The world's future rests with Technical Education Instructors educating the future craftspeople and professionals of tomorrow."
Copyright © 2004 Jack Podojil
March 3, 2004
" The purpose of education is not to produce more scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace."
Krishnamurti
March 3, 2004
" The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."
Confucius
March 1, 2004
" Believe the unbelievable."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kelly Cannon --- Virginia
Life's full of magic and mystery. Embrace it, always.
March 1, 2004
" Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."
Garrison Keillor
March 1, 2004
" Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge one then feels stimulated to improve himself. Therefore, it is said, 'the processes of teaching and learning stimulate one another.'"
Confucius
February 25, 2004
" A child miseducated is a child lost."
John F. Kennedy
February 25, 2004
" Only the curious will learn, only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
Eugene S. Wilson
February 25, 2004
" It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others."
Mark Twain
February 23, 2004
" The foolish researcher spends a lot of time by working hard, the wise researcher kills the time by creating new solutions, collaborations and inventions."
Copyright © 2004 Hendry Izaac Elim
February 23, 2004
" You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
Theodor Seuss Geisel
February 23, 2004
" 'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything; 'I will try' has performed wonders."
George P. Burnham
February 18, 2004
" The probability to win once in 1000 trails is negligible, but the one win can make the 999 failures negligible."
Copyright © 2004 Srikanth Kavirayani
February 18, 2004
" Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried."
Frank Tyger
February 18, 2004
" The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
Simone Weil
February 16, 2004
" History repeats its self. In order to know the future, you must know your history."
Copyright © 2003 April M. Warner
History contains so much. Make it real, make it fun and it will live on in our hearts, not just our books.
February 16, 2004
" Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
Abigail Adams
February 16, 2004
" We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."
David P. Gardner
February 11, 2004
" America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it."
Jane Addams
February 11, 2004
" The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty."
Jaime Escalante
February 11, 2004
" It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers."
John P. Lougbrane
February 9, 2004
" Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do."
Lin Yutang
February 9, 2004
" Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
Anne Frank
February 9, 2004
" We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."
Oscar Wilde
February 4, 2004
" Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need."
Charles Franklin Kettering
February 4, 2004
" Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Ben Franklin
February 4, 2004
" A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
Frank Capra
February 2, 2004
" Always try your best the first time, and then improve from that."
Copyright © 2003 Mauricio Cavazos
February 2, 2004
" To ask a question may bring a moment's shame, but not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifetime of shame."
Geoffrey Moss --- Submitted by Saman Khan --- Sindh, Pakistan
February 2, 2004
" Never wait for help. Do what you can and let help find you on the way!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Roger Ntakirutinka --- Montana
January 28, 2004
While teaching fundamentals and individual moves,
I hear a lot of the girls say, "I can't do that!"
I always say to them, "Don't say, I CAN'T - Do say TEACH ME!"
Copyright © 2003 Valerie Van Hyfte
I am a Jr. High Girls Basketball coach
January 28, 2004
" Life is a book of lessons -- the older you get the more you educate yourself; and education is part of what makes us better and more tolerant human beings."
Written in 2004 by M.L. Lopez --- California
January 28, 2004
" The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience."
Author Unknown
January 26, 2004
" Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
Samuel Johnson
January 26, 2004
" Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it."
Theodore Roosevelt
January 26, 2004
" The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
Cicero (Quoted by Montaigne)
January 21, 2004
" Someone offering a solution to a problem is smart. Accepting it is even smarter. That's less thinking for you. Give in to knowledge not pride."
Copyright © 2004 Rad Castro
January 21, 2004
" Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
Arthur Koestler
January 21, 2004
" I'm not a teacher, only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead, ahead of myself, as well as you."
George Bernard Shaw
January 19, 2004
" Focus not on the mistakes but the lessons learnt from them, so we can educate others not to repeat the same experience."
Copyright © 2002 Ivona Tuaimau Evans
January 19, 2004
" Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 19, 2004
" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
John Ruskin
January 14, 2004
" Creativity in life, science and art is not only the beginning of discovery but also much better than an excellent ability on imitating a textbook or lecture note."
Copyright © 2004 Hendry Izaac Elim (Singapore)
January 14, 2004
" In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer
January 14, 2004
" Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
Robert M. Hutchins
January 12, 2004
" Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."
Malcolm X
January 12, 2004
" Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."
Goethe
January 12, 2004
" Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach."
Jan Amos Coménius
January 7, 2004
" Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child's eyes to the needs and rights of others."
the Dalai Lama
January 7, 2004
" Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
January 7, 2004
" Everyone and everything around you is your teacher."
Ken Keyes Jr.
January 5, 2004
" When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
January 5, 2004
" Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant
January 5, 2004
" We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart."
Sir Walter Scott
December 17, 2003
" I want you to start a crusade in your life ...to dare to be your best."
William Danforth
December 17, 2003
" Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results."
John Dewey
December 17, 2003
" Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best."
Marva Collins
December 15, 2003
" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
Kahlil Gibran
December 15, 2003
" Education is the ability to meet life's situations."
Dr. John G. Hibben
December 15, 2003
" Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
Walt Disney
December 10, 2003
" Inside every problem are the seeds of innovative solutions."
Reed Markham --- Submitted by B.M. --- Utah
December 10, 2003
" I think and think for months and years. Ninety nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein
December 10, 2003
" You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
Albert Camus
December 8, 2003
" Pursue your dreams or they will end up being events that seem to only happen in fairytales."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Megan P., Age 18 --- Maryland
December 8, 2003
" My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln
December 8, 2003
" I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."
Septima Poinsette Clark
December 3, 2003
" Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
William Glasser
December 3, 2003
" Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them."
Author Unknown
December 3, 2003
" Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
Ambrose Bierce
December 1, 2003
" A student is born with wings, but a teacher shows them how to use them to fly."
Copyright © 2003 Shelby Stollery
December 1, 2003
" All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michaela Goad --- Dorset, United Kingdom
December 1, 2003
" Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
Henry Peter Broughan
November 19, 2003
" Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
William Ellery Channing
November 19, 2003
" In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth--teaching others."
Ibn Gabirol
November 17, 2003
" The teaching profession comes with the commitment to give one's self whole-heartedly."
Copyright © 2003 Mau Nivales --- Philippines
November 17, 2003
" Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
Winston Churchill
November 17, 2003
" The mark of a well-educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."
Douglas Everett
November 12, 2003
An Indian wise man was teaching the children of his tribe when a boy said, "If you're so wise, tell me if this bird in my hands is alive or dead." The wise man thought a minute and said, "If I say the bird is alive you will crush it and if I say it's dead you will let it go free. Therefore, the bird is whatever you want it to be."
Written in 2003 by S.H.W --- California
The bird is life
November 12, 2003
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say,
"The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Maria Montessori
November 12, 2003
" The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
John Lubbock
November 10, 2003
" The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves."
Joseph Campbell
November 10, 2003
" At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - comes to a single word. That word is education."
Lyndon B. Johnson
November 10, 2003
" Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't."
Walter Bagehot
November 5, 2003
" Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier."
John Dewey
November 5, 2003
" Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers."
Gilbert Highet
November 5, 2003
" The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
Amos Bronson Alcott
November 3, 2003
" Always do what most needs to be done without waiting to be asked."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by H. Potgieter --- Gauteng, South Africa
November 3, 2003
" The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people."
K. Patricia Cross
November 3, 2003
" The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
Mark van Doren
October 29, 2003
" If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head."
Claire Weeks
October 29, 2003
" Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
October 29, 2003
" There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
Mark Twain
October 27, 2003
" Teacher: Student is a symbiotic relationship in which the teacher must always be willing to learn and the student must always be willing to share."
Copyright © 2003 Barbara E. Olsen (Pennsylvania)
October 27, 2003
" You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may make use of it the moment you learn to control your thoughts."
Napoleon Hill
October 27, 2003
" The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them."
Denis Waitley
October 22, 2003
" When you make them smile, laugh, think, write, explore, take notes, read, or give them a chance...you have taught them something everlasting."
Copyright © 2003 Wayne Groves
October 22, 2003
" It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
October 22, 2003
" Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there; make it happen."
Lee Iacocca
October 20, 2003
" The knowledge, which does not influence conduct, is an empty accomplishment. The conduct which does not influence knowledge is a blind strive."
Written in 2003 by Chandrashekar A., Age 18 --- NITK, Surathkal, India
October 20, 2003
" Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."
John F. Kennedy
October 20, 2003
" The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'"
Dan Rather
October 15, 2003
" The more you learn the more you earn."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.H., Age 16 --- Iowa
A substitute teacher told me this...and I'll never forget it.
October 15, 2003
" If we don't model what we teach, we are teaching something else."
Author Unknown
October 15, 2003
" If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
Confucius
October 13, 2003
" You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
Clay P. Bedford
October 13, 2003
" A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher."
Cesar Chavez
October 13, 2003
" What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."
Karl Menninger
October 8, 2003
" I will study and get ready and someday my chance will come."
Abraham Lincoln
October 8, 2003
" Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a marker or a building."
A. Bartlett Giamatti
October 8, 2003
" To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."
Tyron Edwards
October 6, 2003
" We do not own our knowledge; it is not ours to keep. We must share our gift of knowing with those who seek to know. Learning is a blessing, teaching is a gift, and knowledge is power! Let's empower others."
Written in 2002 by C. Davis --- Maryland
I believe in the power of knowledge and being a teacher empowers us with knowledge that we must share everyday of our journey through life.
October 6, 2003
" One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
Carl Jung
October 6, 2003
" Education can be defined as working with people, young and old, to prepare them to live in the future. The future may be bright. The future may be gray. But, most importantly we must insure that there will be a future."
Willard J. Jacobson
October 1, 2003
" In order to be successful you have to be: a dreamer, a hard worker, a goal-directed person, persistent, and responsible. Be one or all of them. And success will be a sure thing."
Copyright © 2003 Eva M. Ramos
I always write one motivational quotation at the beginning of each of my ESL classes. We comment upon it, students learn new words and learn about life, success, and about never giving up.
October 1, 2003
" Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning."
Benjamin Disraeli
October 1, 2003
" A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later."
Julius Lester
September 29, 2003
" Do not become frustrated by unknown answers, embrace them for it is an opportunity to further your mind."
Copyright © 2003 Roberta Roberts
September 29, 2003
" Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you...follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony."
Will Durant
September 29, 2003
" Education is the ability to think clearly, act well in the world of work and to appreciate life."
Brigham Young
September 24, 2003
" As a student once myself I sat on one side of the desk, absorbing, learning, thinking. Now I have a chance to STAND on the other side of the desk and teach. I have a chance to give back, inspire, to teach."
Copyright © 2003 Wayne Groves
September 24, 2003
" One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one's growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn."
Herbert Kohl
September 24, 2003
" Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view."
Robert Hutchins
September 22, 2003
" The powers of students sometimes sink under too great severity in correction; for they despond, and grieve, and at last hate their work; and what is most prejudicial, while they fear everything, they cease to attempt anything.... A teacher ought, therefore, to be as agreeable as possible, that remedies, which are rough in their nature, may be rendered soothing by gentleness of hand; he ought to praise some parts of his pupils' performances, tolerate some, and to alter others, giving his reasons why the alterations are made."
Quintilian
September 22, 2003
" No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
Emma Goldman
September 22, 2003
" Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively."
R.D. Clyde
September 17, 2003
" An ounce of appreciation is more powerful than a pound of admonition."
Copyright © 2003 Conrad Favorito
September 17, 2003
" A Child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things."
Benjamin Mays
September 17, 2003
" Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
Japanese Proverb
September 15, 2003
" To succeed one has to think out of the box. To think out of the box, one should change one's perspective. To change the perspective one has to think critically and approach problems without prejudice or bias."
Copyright © 2002 Jagannathan Arockiam
September 15, 2003
" What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
Thomas Carlyle
September 15, 2003
" All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners...looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing...not moving toward excellence."
Denis Waitley
September 10, 2003
" To teach is to learn twice."
Joseph Joubert --- Submitted by A.S. --- Florida
September 10, 2003
" I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized."
Haim Ginott
September 10, 2003
" One of the most important things a teacher can do is to send the pupil home in the afternoon liking himself just a little better than when he came in that morning."
Ernest Melby
September 8, 2003
" Teaching is humbling. The more I teach, the more I have to learn. Life is humbling. The more I live, the more I have to learn."
Copyright © 2003 Phua Geok Kuan
September 8, 2003
" If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
Carl Jung
September 8, 2003
" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."
Aristotle
September 3, 2003
" Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
Arthur Koestler
September 3, 2003
" Teachers: two kinds: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move and the kind that just give you a little prod from behind and you jump to the skies."
Robert Frost
September 3, 2003
" There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 27, 2003
" If ever you want to realize the potential of the human mind, go through the inventions man has made over a period of time."
Copyright © 2003 B. Radha Krisha
August 27, 2003
" Don't try to fix the students; fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good, and the good student superior. When our students fail, we as teachers, too, have failed."
Marva Collins
August 27, 2003
" The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."
Michael Faraday
August 25, 2003
" It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
Jacob Chanowski
August 25, 2003
" I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
A. C. Benson
August 25, 2003
" Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him."
Geoffrey Holder
August 20, 2003
" Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion. Without passion for your subject and a desire for your students to learn and be the best in the world, then we have failed as a teacher and failure is not an option."
Copyright © 2003 John F. Podojil
August 20, 2003
" If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like old faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape."
Ray Bradbury
August 20, 2003
" Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda
August 18, 2003
" Teaching makes you young and beautiful, only if you show your passion for it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Blandina SBP --- Manila, Philippines
August 18, 2003
" The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
August 18, 2003
Teacher's Prayer
I want to teach my students how
To Live this life on earth
To face its struggles and its strife
And to improve their worth
Not just the lesson in a book
Or how the rivers flow
But how to choose the proper path
Wherever they may go
To understand eternal truth
And know the right from wrong
And gather all the beauty of
A flower and a song
For if I help the world to grow
In wisdom and in grace
Then I shall fell that I have won
And I have filled my place
And so I ask your guidance, God
That I may do my part
For character and confidence
And happiness of heart
James J. Metcalf
August 13, 2003
" An open mind absorbs all information. When closed, only misinformation is allowed to enter."
Copyright © 2003 Trent McHenry
August 13, 2003
" I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes."
Maxine Hong Kingston
August 13, 2003
" I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance."
Barbara Jordan
August 11, 2003
" You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills."
Jim Rohn
August 11, 2003
" Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."
Euripides
August 11, 2003
" Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."
Charles F. Kettering
August 6, 2003
" Teachers are those who teach us not for a written test, but rather for the final exam called life."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jess J., Age 24 --- New York
I had some amazing teachers in my life, many of whom I still keep in contact with. Always remember that they became teachers because they want to make an impact on those who cross their paths, and act accordingly.
August 6, 2003
" If you study to remember, you will forget. But, if you study to understand, you will remember."
Author Unknown
August 6, 2003
" Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."
Sir William Haley
August 4, 2003
" Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion. Without your passion and dedication, our children's future would resemble a sunset instead of a sunrise. Your days are long and often difficult. Thrive on your passion, and enhance our world's tomorrow."
Copyright © 2003 Linda A. Podojil
August 4, 2003
" Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave."
Ropo Oguntimehin
August 4, 2003
" Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
Horace Mann
July 30, 2003
" Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
John Cotton Dana
July 30, 2003
" While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
Angela Schwindt
July 30, 2003
" The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows."
Laurence Lee
July 28, 2003
" Never say you don't have time to do certain tasks, because we all are given time - same as Helen Keller, Einstein and other great people. The thing is to divide your time to achieve your goals."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by A. Saleem --- Punjab, Pakistan
July 28, 2003
" We must have the courage to examine everything, discuss everything and even to teach everything."
Condorcet
July 28, 2003
" The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher."
Elbert Hubbard
July 23, 2003
" Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life."
B.F. Skinner
July 23, 2003
" The secret of education is respecting the pupil."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 23, 2003
" You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it."
Seymour Papert
July 21, 2003
" I am a coach. It is the greatest gift that life could give me, since I am allowed to spend my days with the future athletes of the world. My students will be the best that I can teach them to be. I will use my knowledge in the field of sports to achieve these goals."
Copyright © 2003 Jack Podojil
July 21, 2003
" The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
B.B. King
July 21, 2003
" All students can learn and succeed, but not in the same day, in the same way."
William G. Spady
July 16, 2003
" The education and training of children is among the most meritorious acts of humankind and draweth down the grace and favor of the All-Merciful, for education is the indispensable foundation of all human excellence and alloweth man to work his way to the heights of abiding glory."
Abdu'l Baha --- Submitted by L.B. Rosenfield --- Illinois
July 16, 2003
" The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation."
Pearl Buck
July 16, 2003
" Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant
July 14, 2003
" I often tell me students that if someone criticizes you they are only reflecting their own insecurities. The only opinion that truly matters is the one you have for yourself."
Andea Pandeloglou--- Virginia
July 14, 2003
" Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that thing."
Dr. J. A. Holmes
July 14, 2003
" Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honors than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter proved mere life, while the former ensure a good life."
Aristotle
July 9, 2003
" Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
Sydney J. Harris
July 9, 2003
" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
John Ruskin
July 9, 2003
" One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
Albert Einstein
July 7, 2003
" Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
William Hazlitt
July 7, 2003
" One looks with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
Carl Jung
July 7, 2003
" The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams."
Sidney Madwed
July 2, 2003
" The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think, rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. "
James Beattie
July 2, 2003
" Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another; it is the only means."
Albert Einstein
July 2, 2003
" Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
Aristotle
June 30, 2003
" The teacher's task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way."
John Warren
June 30, 2003
" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
George Santayana
June 30, 2003
" Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
Walter Bagehot
June 25, 2003
" The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods."
Margaret Mead
June 25, 2003
" The ability to think straight,
some knowledge of the past,
some vision of the future,
some skill to do useful service,
some urge to fit that service
into the well-being of the community--
these are the most vital things
education must try to produce."
Virginia Gildersleeve
June 25, 2003
" Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three."
Confucius
June 23, 2003
" Education for some is like a vacation, and for others ....it's their last resort."
Copyright 2003 Jon C. Pitts II
June 23, 2003
" The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people."
Eric Hoffer
June 23, 2003
" Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers."
Richard Bach
June 18, 2003
" A good teacher teaches a child the three R's :
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.
A better teacher teaches a child the three C's as well:
Cooperation, Commitment and Compassion.
But the best teacher teaches the child the three S's:
Self-appreciation, Self-confidence and Strength of character.
For if you have the last three, you can love yourself. And if you love yourself, all you need is a gentle push to love others, which your self-confidence provides."
Copyright © 2003 Kim Mascarenhas
This is dedicated to my favorite teacher-Tr. Mariamma. She helped me and still helps me carry on through life, no matter how many times I hurt her in my impetuosity. A teacher will never know how great her power is to alter a child's perspective and attitude. Someone ought to tell them, for they deserve all the respect they can get.
June 18, 2003
" Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes."
Henry Ward Beecher
June 18, 2003
" ... in our work with students it's the quality of our relationship with them, not the content we teach, that is the most significant element determining our effectiveness."
Carl Rogers
June 16, 2003
" Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "ability". One brush stroke stands for capable, the other for patient. How to gain ability, is to be patient and persistent."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Zhan Rui Hua
June 16, 2003
" I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
Thomas Edison
June 16, 2003
" Sometimes the toughest people to you are the ones who care about you the most."
My teacher, Mrs. Avery --- Submitted by Britany J., Age 14 --- Michigan
June 11, 2003
" Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that's the only reason for having anything."
Leo Buscaglia
June 11, 2003
" We must have the courage to examine everything, discuss everything and even to teach everything."
Condorcet
June 11, 2003
" Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
Annie Sullivan
June 9, 2003
" Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
Anatole France
June 9, 2003
" You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."
Galileo
June 9, 2003
" The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know."
Carl Rogers
June 4, 2003
" The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
Maria Montessori
June 4, 2003
" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Frost
June 4, 2003
" It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Seneca
June 2, 2003
" Good teachers are costly. Bad teachers cost more."
Bob Talbert
June 2, 2003
" The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
June 2, 2003
" I'm not a teacher, but an awakener."
Robert Frost
May 30, 2003
" If you will struggles today, then you will find something in future. But if your will is in wait of the future, then you will waste your future."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kashif Baig --- Karachi, Pakistan
May 30, 2003
" Think laterally, as there is more to be seen, than what is straight ahead."
Written in 2003 by S. Barlow --- Lancashire, United Kingdom
May 30, 2003
" A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled."
James Baldwin
May 28, 2003
" A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where her influence stops."
Henry Adams --- Submitted by A.R., Age 17 --- Maryland
May 28, 2003
The most prevalent use of humor today involves making fun of, or putting another person down. Isn't this sad though? I've always told my kids that, "if I make a thousand people laugh, at the expense of hurting one person's feelings, it's not worth it."
Copyright © 2003 Scott Johnson
Human self-esteem is a fragile thing indeed.
May 28, 2003
" I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein
May 21, 2003
" A teacher is someone who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mikhaela O., Age 16 --- Philippines
I read this quotation on the wall of a school building.
May 21, 2003
" We should ever pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders."
Mao Tse-tung
May 21, 2003
" I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer - anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest."
Muhammad Ali
May 19, 2003
" Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country; not military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant."
Lydon B. Johnson
May 19, 2003
" Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting on foot in front of the other."
Mary C. Richards
May 14, 2003
" Knowledge is the power of the mind,
Wisdom is the power of the soul."
Copyright © 2001 Julie Shannahan
May 14, 2003
" A godly thought is an unseen treasure of an upright man."
Copyright © 2003 Jose B. Cabajar
As a Bible School teacher, I can't read others thoughts but I strongly believe that a godly thought is a real treasure to be guarded.
May 12, 2003
" All children are gifted. Each individual child is a treasure chest, full of potential. The right teacher is needed to unlock them."
Copyright © 2003 Robert Buesing
May 12, 2003
" One who can concentrate and focus on his responsibilities can only enlighten others with his extraordinary character when the hard work is done; ahh the rewards of accomplishment."
Copyright © 2003 Kathleen Berbari
May 7, 2003
" Just like we were taught never to judge a book by its cover, never judge a teacher by how they are on the outside because if you take the time to get to know them on the inside, a new world opens up."
Written in 2003 by Cindy S.
This goes to my Geometry teacher whom I saw a totally different person - helpful, nice, understanding, and caring, once I allowed myself to see in the inside of him. I learned so much from him just by trusting that he wasn't who I thought he was on the outside.
May 7, 2003
" Laugh WITH anyone, but laugh AT no one."
Jill Youngblood -- Submitted by A A2 --- Indiana
Aa classroom rule for a teacher that I am doing student teaching with. It is sure to be one of my classroom rules in the future.
May 5, 2003
" Quick solutions are usually dirty ones."
Copyright © 2000 Sanjay Goel
I often tell this to my students at UG and PG level in order to think deeply about the problems rather than quickly jumping at simplistic answers.
May 5, 2003
" Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
Siddhartha Guatama Buddha --- (563-483 BC) Indian founder of Buddhism
April 30, 2003
" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
April 28, 2003
" Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Author Unknown
April 25, 2003
" Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."
Brigham Young
April 23, 2003
" Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erect in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print."
Barbara Tuchman
April 21, 2003
" The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things."
G.K. Chesterton
April 18, 2003
" A Teacher's success is only measured by the success of his own students--delegate, motivate, rejuvenate!"
Copyright © 2003 Perry Thomas Lopez
April 16, 2003
" Look for a place that you deserve, and a place that deserves you."
Clarissa Yack --- Submitted by Mikhaela O., Age 16 --- Philippines
Our high school teacher told us this upon realizing that our school did not live up to its mission of efficiently molding the students.
April 14, 2003
" High Expectations,
Produce High Achievers,
Who Have No Excuses."
Copyright © 2002 Candy Staton Custalow
I wrote this quote for my class the beginning of the year. I wanted my students to know that I expected great things from them and the people who succeed in life, succeed without making excuses.
April 11, 2003
" The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."
Albert Einstein --- Submitted by Monique Holdorff --- Singapore
April 9, 2003
" I never realized the extent of a teacher's job until I met Mrs. Reid. I was a senior in High School and life was definitely not at it's best. I was searching for something, but I wasn't sure exactly where to find it. Mrs. Reid allowed me to see my own inner strength and beauty. She gave me wings and I had to decide to fly. Her constant encouragement was a blessing from God and now I truly know that God created teachers EXTRA SPECIAL. If it were not for her, I would not be the person I am today; a confidant, well rounded child of God."
Crystal Tuttle --- South Carolina
April 7, 2003
" If they knew better, they would do better."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Doug Triplett --- Pennsylvania
April 4, 2003
" In order to get the best out of people you have to believe that they have the best in them."
Copyright © 2003 Ray Mc Nulty
April 2, 2003
" If we can send men to the moon, THEN we can do anything!"
Ms. Vieyra --- Submitted by Vanessa V., Age 15 --- Texas
My English III A.P. Teacher said this to our class because it was the last day of the 9 weeks. She was telling us that she can change our grades if it came to doing so. She said this quote and all of the class laughed! :) So I hope you enjoy the quote just like our class did.
March 31, 2003 " There are two things we must give children: The first one is roots, the other, wings." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Abel Rodriguez --- Florida March 28, 2003 " The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." Bertrand Russell - (1872 - 1970) English author, mathematician, & philosopher March 26, 2003 " Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 1921 March 24, 2003 " It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers. Habits change into character." Ovid March 21, 2003 " True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." Winston Churchill March 19, 2003 " Sometimes the stars just need the dust brushed away." Author Unknown --- Submitted by R.D. --- Texas This quote is from a special teacher where my son attended High School. She was a great influence to my son. March 17, 2003 " Believing in a student, especially when others do not, may just be the answer for this student to learn to believe in himself and understand what it feels like to be believed in." Copyright © 2003 Debra Kammerlander March 14, 2003 " Teachers must regard every imperfection in the pupils comprehension not as a defect but as a deficit in his or her own instruction, and endeavor to develop the ability to discover a new method of teaching." Leo Tolstoy March 12, 2003 " Life is like an algebra equation but with no solution." Written in 2003 by Whitney S., Age 17 --- Michigan March 10, 2003 " A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure." Norman Cousins --- Submitted by Tony A. --- Louisiana From the author's book, 'Human Options'. March 7, 2003 " Teaching is not just hard work, it's "HEART" work." Eleise Buxton --- Submitted by Chad Arnett --- Ohio March 5, 2003 " Reading is the first step towards gaining knowledge." Surendra Dosad --- Hyderabad, India March 3, 2003 " Not everyone can be a star but everyone can twinkle." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mariella P., Age 13 --- Pennsylvania February 28, 2003 " If you avoid difficulties, you will have to face them again." Copyright © 2003 Jason Yeo I avoided some Math topics in my earlier academic years. Now I have to face them in my university education.... This applies in my life as well. February 26, 2003 " Life is not a homework. Do It Now." Satish V. --- Submitted by Ali Asgar Nagaria --- Maharashtra, India February 24, 2003 THE NEW 3RRR's --- Reading, Respect, Responsibility " I don't know about you but when I grew up the 3 r's were Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Now writing and math are certainly skills worth working on ..... but they don't start with R. I can just imagine that the importance of spelling took a hit with this neat little phrase. Which is why we have THE NEW 3 RRR's ---- the fine, needed qualities of Reading, Respect & Responsibility ..... and grammatically correct:^)" Copyright © 2003 David Ian Gussin February 21, 2003 " Don't care what other people think of you. You just gotta go out there, and dance like nobody's watchin'!" Shelia Smith --- Submitted by Kristin H., Age 16 --- North Carolina I would like to thank my English II Honor's teacher, Mrs. Shelia Smith. She helped me in more ways than she'll ever know. And, she is one of the most funny, happy, and inspiring teachers that I've ever had. I hope one day, when I become a teacher, I'll be just like her. Thank you for showing me that it's ok to be myself! You are my hero! February 19, 2003 " You hold the key to what you want to achieve!" Copyright © 2002 Danielle McGill I learned this from a special teacher, Jason Dixon February 17, 2003 " Teachers made me blossom, Teachers made me smile." Written in 2003 by Sanitha A., Age 15 --- Kerala, India Thank you, dear Peter, sir! February 14, 2003 " We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn." Peter F. Drucker February 12, 2003 " Our shortcomings and the mistakes that we make, are what makes us human and not less human." Copyright © 2003 Alison Cannel February 10, 2003 " A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." Thomas Carruthers February 7, 2003 " A teacher is someone who holds a special place in one's heart. They help you inside the classroom as well as outside of it. They are a mentor, confidante, counselor, and most importantly... a friend. Many can teach, but it takes someone special to be a teacher." Copyright © 2003 Samantha Wilson This quote describes my relationship with someone who is very dear to my heart, Ms. Wendy Alessi. Ms. Alessi is my Honors US History 2 teacher and probably one of my best friends. She has taught me so much, and not all of it was about History. She taught me how to accept things and to not be judgmental. She also taught me how to love and respect myself. I owe a lot to her and I love her so very, very, very much. She truly is a wonderful person who holds a very special place in my heart. Thank you Ms. Alessi for everything you have done for me. I love you sooooooooooo much. I owe you my life! February 5, 2003 " You cannot have a learning organization without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops." Peter Senge February 3, 2003 " We all smile in the same language." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Tamz D., Age 16 --- Sydney, Australia January 31, 2003 " How do I know my students are learning? - It's the satisfaction I feel when I stare at their beautiful smiles when getting in and leaving the classroom ever single day." Copyright © 2003 Oswaldo Herrera Nieto I wrote this quote when I understood why my students smile at me all the time. Thank you to all my students. January 29, 2003 " No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value." Bertrand Russell January 27, 2003 Everyday is a new day, No matter what comes my way. When I am with free spirited people like you, Then I know today is true and new. You make time for me even if it's for a few. You're a wonderful teacher and friend too. I actually did not like school until I met you. This year is free from fear with you here. With you right by my side I have you speaking in my mind. You made me see that I should be O.K. being me. What I learned from you is that I hold the key to what I want to achieve! Copyright © 2003 Danielle McGill For my teacher Jason Dixon January 24, 2003 " If you switch the perfection "ON", then only, you can create a paragon." Copyright © 2001 Manoj Bhokardole Do less but always try to be perfect in that less. January 22, 2003 " Never be afraid in a classroom, never be afraid on the playing field, and most of all, never be afraid in the path of life. You have people that believe in you, that love you, that care about you; dry your tears, you are going to be okay, because I believe in you, and you believe in you." Mr. Chapman --- Submitted by Holly W., Age 14 --- Virginia My history teacher, Mr. Chapman, told me this one time after class when he saw me crying. He knew I was going through a hard time and every time I start to cry, I think about this, I dry my tears, and I'm not afraid anymore. Maybe if you think about this, when you are crying, you too won't be afraid anymore. Thanks, Mr. C., you're the best!! January 20, 2003 " You must understand before you are understood." Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.R. --- Kansas Many youngsters and adolescents refuse to listen to any kind of advice. Sometimes, they want to "make" people understand who they are, and as a result, they refuse to listen. I think this may be the main contributor as to why they often see the turns, but not the roads ahead. In my opinion, reality awareness should be a key element in teaching these children. January 17, 2003 " Knowledge is a treasure that leads to power; power is at the top of the mountain where the mustang roams." Written in 2002 by K.L., Age 13 --- Utah January 15, 2003 " Teachers help everyone succeed, way of life to those who would like to go far!" Copyright © 2003 Chelsey Hudgins January 13, 2003 " I do not criticize others 'cause I'm not perfect." Jaskaran S., Age 18 --- Punjab, India January 10, 2003 " Hidden inside every apple is a perfect 5-point star. Inside every child, though sometimes hidden, is the potential for greatness! Find the Star!" Copyright © 1998 Perry Carlson We all have gifts to share with the world! God does not make junk! January 8, 2003 " I teach a child, not a curriculum." Copyright © 2000 T. McInnis January 6, 2003 " I would like to thank all my teachers for making my school years so wonderful and for making school so exciting." Aimee G., Age 16 --- Qld, Australian External Territories Teachers mean a lot! December 23, 2002 " When I first started high school, and I had all these mean teachers, I thought I'd never like high school. I dreaded going. Then I heard about a new club meeting called the Future Teachers of America. I always wanted to be a teacher, so I joined. That may have just been the greatest decision I've ever made. I met the most wonderful teacher I've ever known. She not only got me wanting to be a teacher even more, I wanted to be a teacher just like her. I used to get to school really early just to be with her for longer. She cares so much for her students and treats them with respect. Even though she's at another school now, I still carry her in my thoughts and I like to think there's a part of her in me. I hope that one day, when I become a teacher, there's a part of her in me that shows the great teacher she is." Written in 2002 by Kristin H., Age 16 --- North Carolina Thank you Mrs. Cory for being a great teacher and admirable friend. I miss you a lot and I think of you often!! December 20, 2002 " There are so many things that I would like to say to the person that has changed my life in so many ways but I guess what I really want to and have to say to Mrs. Jeanne Pearson is this: Girl, you have helped me through so many things since just my Freshman year and I am only a Sophomore. I love you so much and I thank the Lord everyday that he has put someone so special on the earth (which was enough because I KNOW you do this world SO MUCH GOOD) and then he put YOU in my life! You have no idea how much that means to me! When I come to your room everyday just to say 'Hi', and you just smile and say 'Good Morning Kayli', makes my day so much better! You are an AWESOME TEACHER! REMEMBER: I LOVE YOU GIRL and REMEMBER TO SMILE! That bright smile can't go without being flashed at least once a day!" Written in 2002 by Kayli, Age 16 --- Michigan December 18, 2002 " I like who I am when I am with you." Author Unknown --- Submitted by S.C. --- North Carolina December 16, 2002 " What defines my success; nothing else but just your bless." Copyright © 2002 Manoj Bhokardole This is for my lovely parents; they are the best teachers for me. December 13, 2002 " I've learned that others help keep you going long after you can't. I have had the opportunity to learn and love two special teachers that have touched my life in more ways then they could ever know. Miss McGinley, you will always be in my heart for helping me through the toughest time of my life. In two years you gave me more than most can give in a lifetime. You help keep me whole. Mrs. Mattachini, the acceptance you give is more than anyone could wish for. I will never forget the friendship we developed and the happiness you gave me." Written in 2002 by Leanne Fabris "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." --- Author Unknown December 11, 2002 " If you don't think, you will sink." V.Venkatachalm(National awardee) --- Submitted by Vaibhav Gogi --- Karanataka, India December 9, 2002 " Remember, teaching is not just a profession; it is a passion. The greatest gift that you can give another person is knowledge." Copyright © 2002 John Podojil December 6, 2002 " Learning is like a flowing river; it slowly meets the ocean of knowledge." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Santi Santosh Mahapatra --- Pune, India December 4, 2002 " Let time be the teacher of life; don't waste it and don't be too late." Copyright © 1997 Alii A. Alo November 22, 2002 There are so many great teachers at my old high school. I am so grateful that Ms.Fericelli was my English and Connect Crew teacher. Every one loves her, I know I do and miss her terribly. Every one I've ever known that has had her or has known her has always said that she is so great. So many students always went to her classroom to talk to her and get advice on problems. Even though she had her own worries, she was always willing to help others. God must have given this wonderful woman so much strength to do what she does everyday, change lives! Ms. Fericelli was always there for me. She is a loving and caring teacher and those who have ever had a chance to know her know just exactly how amazing she is. I loved to go to the two classes I had with her. She made me become better at English and made Connect Crew an experience of a lifetime that I will never forget. English will never be the same without her. I often go to English missing her and remembering how great she is and what she did for me. She was always there for anything I needed to talk about. Ms. Fericelli, I want you to know you mean the world to me, I miss you terribly, and I love you. Another teacher I must talk about is Ms. Skalicky. She was my drama teacher in 9th grade. I really liked that class, it was so much fun to go to. If a teacher makes a class fun and interesting, such as she did, it makes you actually want to go!! She would tell us her crazy stories about how she used to be a belly dancer and eat fire!! She's so funny!! I became a cheerleader in 11th grade and Ms. Skalicky was the advisor as well as the pep club advisor. She was really supportive and proud of me and all of the cheerleaders. This woman has real Hilltop spirit! I liked having her at the games to see me cheer and have always liked to drop by her classroom just to say hello. I was so happy when I found out I received the faculty scholarship; I didn't even know they had that! Ms. Skalicky nominated me, which was very kind of her. Ms. Skalicky, Thank you for all that you have done for me. You are an incredible teacher and person. I love you Ms.Fericelli and Ms.Skalicky!!! You're both wonderful people I will never forget! Written in 2002 by Kelly Campbell November 20, 2002 " Learn all you can, never be satisfied with what you know, there's always more to learn, and someone willing to teach." Written in 2002 by Gillian M., Age 14 --- North Carolina November 18, 2002 I always thank my teachers: they are the ones who help mold you for the rest of your life...they are the inspiring people who you trust...and finally they can be your friends. Written in 2002 by Kelly G., Age 14 --- Louisiana Thank you from the bottom of my heart to my beloved English teacher for always being there to talk to, for always inspiring me to do my best, and for just loving me. November 15, 2002 " If everyone on the planet could improve by just 10%, this world would be paradise." Copyright © 1996 Mark Sullivan November 13, 2002 I will start off by saying Veronica Anderson is the best teacher I will ever meet and I want to thank her. She has always been there for me and has done things for me she didn't need to do. I admire her very much and hope to be like her in a few years. She teaches math and that's what I want to teach. Following her path will be hard because she is one of a kind, but I can be myself and try to be as great as she is. Thank you and I will always love you. Written in 2002 by Holly Ann M., Age 14 --- Minnesota November 11, 2002 " Take time to think about what you have done for us. You have changed us from growing up to be stupid to being the smartest people on God's green earth. Some people don't appreciate the things you have done for us. I want to thank all of you for what you have done." Author Unknown -- Submitted by Candace C., Age 12 --- Virginia November 8, 2002 I would like to thank my teacher, Senora Witt. She always comes to school with a smile on her face and ready to teach. She cares about every single student and how well they are succeeding. She puts all her energy into giving assignments that are meaningful, but fun at the same time. Senora, I can't thank you enough for being the caring, inspirational, and most important, loving person that I need in my life. My dream is to become a teacher just like you. I want to make a difference, just like you have done in my life. I know that I met you for a reason. You are a true angel. I love you with all my heart. Thank you! Written in 2002 by Heather G., Age 17 --- Kansas November 6, 2002 On this website there have been many people writing about their favorite teachers being the greatest teachers in the world. This is true in their world, but in mine the two greatest teachers ever have remained in my life since high school. I don't just admire them, I love them for being great and amazing people in my life. So for those people who say they hate teachers, think again because some teachers change lives forever! Ms.Bennett and Ms.Schuster are exactly these type of teachers. You can talk to them about anything. They are able to empathize with you, they remember what it's like growing up by putting themselves back in the shoes you are now in. They understand and help you in any way they can, not solely by education, but by so much more than that! If God hadn't created teachers such as these, many would be in a completely lost world. Counselors change lives as well as teachers do. My high school counselor, Ms.Rindone has changed my life forever. She is also one of the greatest people any one could ever ask for. I am so grateful that God has put her in my life as well. Ms.Rindone has always been there for me and cares so much. She's the type of person you love being around for simply just being her, making your world a better place. She can change your whole day around. Differences have been made in the lives of other kids as well as my own. I had a problem that she legally had to tell on, which was painful then, but I do not mind anymore because I think it was supposed to happen. If I hadn't told her, I don't know if it would have been helped as quickly as it was. I want to thank God for these three wonderful people that are my friends. They are all like mentors to me as well, without them I don't know what I would do. Copyright © 2002 Kelly Campbell (For Annette, Vicki and Heather) November 4, 2002 Trying Hard Trying hard means trying your best, Always helps you pass the test. Homework, homework is what we say. No matter what, we have it mostly every day. To me school is all right, But after everyday, I know I'll be standing acknowledged and bright. Copyright © 2002 Latoya Banks November 1, 2002 " Good opportunities appear few and far between in our lives. To pass them up without recognizing them is ignorance; to recognize them then pass them up is stupidity." Author Unknown --- Submitted by B.K., Age 18 --- Washington October 30, 2002 " Sometimes you try to look so far ahead of you, you miss all the wonderful things that are right in front of you." Copyright © 2002 Anne Marie Wilkens I would like to thank my health teacher for this wonderful idea, and for my old history teacher, Mr. Crider, for always keeping a positive spirit! October 28, 2002 " An education is something no one can take away from you." Robert D. Owen --- Submitted by Kim B., Age 18 --- South Carolina October 25, 2002 " Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." Pete Seeger October 23, 2002 " There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." John Adams --- Submitted by Cynthia R., Age 17 --- New York October 21, 2002 On teaching, learning and life... " You must first touch the heart before you can teach the mind." Copyright © 1985 Jean Elizabeth Workman When I started doing presentations for teachers, I liked using quotes that pertained to my subject. With many years of experience under my belt (31 yrs.), I realized that it isn't the program, or the basal, or the wealth of the school, that makes a real difference in a child's life. It is in fact, being able to reach the heart of the child before they open their mind's to what you have to offer. It's all about making links. As I have used this quote many times, I've also realized that these words have merit in any life situation. October 18, 2002 " Everything and everyone can be better than they are." Copyright © 1996 Mark Sullivan October 16, 2002 " I would like to thank my Algebra II and Teacher Cadet teacher, Mrs. Pickett. This remarkable woman I met this year not only loves each and every student, as if they were her own child, but she takes the time to answer questions, not just ask them like most teachers do. My life has been hard lately, and I just want to thank her for letting me know that she cares about me." Written in 2002 by Kristin H., Age 16 --- North Carolina October 14, 2002 " Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid." John Wayne --- Submitted by Nicolas Salibrici Most people fudge the meaning of the quotes, especially my students. It does not mean that anyone is stupid, however; it means that if your actions are stupid then life will indeed become tougher. October 11, 2002 " I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." Kahlil Gibran October 9, 2002 " Be inspired to produce, instead of looking for reason to have an excuse." Copyright © 2002 Diane Horsey October 7, 2002 " My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which, I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up." Albert Einstein October 4, 2002 " Firmness hurts now but loves forever." Copyright © 2002 Israel Fernando October 2, 2002 " When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; Say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vikas S., Age 16 --- Maharashtra, India September 30, 2002 " Knowledge is your door to your mind. Your mind is your door to success." Copyright © 2002 Nikolay Nikolov September 27, 2002 " I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children." Marva Collins --- Submitted by V.S., Age 17 --- Utah To the teacher who really cares September 25, 2002 " Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach." Albert Einstein September 23, 2002 " What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." George Bernard Shaw September 20, 2002 " A teacher ... takes a hand, opens a mind, touches a heart and shapes the future." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vikas S., Age 16 --- Maharashtra, India September 18, 2002 " You teach a little by what you say. You teach the most by what you are." Dr. Henrietta Mears --- Submitted by Marci McAdam --- Alberta, Canada September 16, 2002 Dreams are the threads of things that can be. But it's the fabric we must choose to weave. For myself, I choose to be, A weaver of Dreamers, for their dreams I'll see. Copyright © 2002 Leonard Momeny For my children and wife September 13, 2002 " I have nothing new to teach; truth & nonviolence are as old as hills & mountains." Mahatma Gandhi --- Submitted by Gururaj N.M. --- Karnataka, India September 11, 2002 " God can't be everywhere; that's why he made teachers." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Simone A., Age 15 --- Gauteng, South Africa September 9, 2002 " One of the most important things a teacher can do is to send the pupil home in the afternoon liking himself just a little better than when he came in that morning." Ernest Melby --- Submitted by VikeStudent, Age 17 --- Utah September 6, 2002 " To learn and never be filled --- is wisdom. To teach and never be weary --- is love." Author Unknown --- Submitted by "C" D --- Ontario, Canada September 4, 2002 " To educate a man, is to educate an individual; To educate a woman, is to educate and liberate a whole nation." Malik El-Shabbaz (Malcolm X) --- Submitted by S.R. --- United Kingdom August 30, 2002 " If there are no limits to the Universe in which we live, how can there be limits on our minds?" Copyright © 2002 A. J. Bustle August 28, 2002 For students to remember! " Be what you can being what you are... Shine like a glow-worm if you cannot be a star." Unknown Welshman --- Submitted by Submitted by Peter Bonell --- British Columbia, Canada August 26, 2002 " Conviction is worthless unless it is converted to conduct." Thomas Carlyle August 23, 2002 " You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." Rosalynn Carter August 21, 2002 " Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it." Confucius August 19, 2002 " The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us." Philip G. Hamerton August 16, 2002 " Each moment is a teacher. Nothing that happens is a mistake--there are no accidents. Every situation in your life has something to teach you. A "mistake" can teach you more than a "right" move. Remember this." Author Unknown --- Submitted by MS L --- California August 14, 2002 " The sweetest music is the song your soul sings." Written in 2002 by Laura M. --- Florida August 12, 2002 " Take Control - Make It Happen" Author Unknown --- Submitted by J. Cox --- Texas I might be the author as I have never seen the quote in print - I came up with the saying for my Student Council Members; to motivate them to complete projects. August 9, 2002 " To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything." Anatole France August 7, 2002 " Nothing would be done, at all, if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." Cardinal Newman August 5, 2002 " My teacher is my best friend; she saved me from the pain of depression only because she allowed herself to remember from her past experience. She saved me from suicide only because she put herself on the line to help me. She is there for me whenever I need her, if ever I am sad or lonely or need that smile only she can give. I love you more than anything on this earth and I want to say thank you. And I love you, because I can never tell you myself." Written in 2002 by Tanya F., Age 17 --- Queensland, Australia --- For Miss Ashton August 2, 2002 " The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." Arthur Koestler July 31, 2002 " Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." Samuel Johnson July 29, 2002 " The foundation of a home is what allows it to withstand the forces of nature. The foundation of a person's personal achievements is Education. Approach each day at school as you would at the construction site. Stay focused in school and the bricks of your home will shelter you forever." Copyright © 2002 Armando Morales July 26, 2002 " Teachers are the lights that guide humanity in the darkness of illiteracy." Copyright © 2002 Marimel Loya July 24, 2002 MY TEACHERS I stand before you preaching, selling, teaching, telling. You gaze with little satisfaction; "Give me, don't sell-- show me, don't tell." Time to move on. "Is that all you have to say?" Did I make a difference today? I have learned to be the student. There is no end to what you need. It's only my job to plant the seed. With what I offer, plant the seed--let it grow. All that you've taught me you'll never know. Copyright © 2002 Maribel Salas Perez This is dedicated to all of my past and present students, my true teachers. Thank you for the inspiration. July 22, 2002 " Make something your specialty. Life is a very uncertain affair. Knowing a little about 500 things won't do us much good. We must be able to do something well, that our work will be needed and valuable." Thomas Carlyle July 19, 2002 " Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Samuel Johnson July 17, 2002 " Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, And you may become a teacher of others." Confucius July 15, 2002 SO MANY DAYS So many days we are going to miss, It's not the same anymore. So many things I never got to say, So many memories that I wish could last forever. All this year, I couldn't wait to go home. But now I find myself coming back every chance I get. I can't help but wonder why, Why I don't want to leave, And why I cannot stay. This is the greatest year That I could ever have. These are the greatest teachers Anyone could ever wish for. Written in 2002 by Kandyce S., Age 16 --- Massachusetts To my favorite teachers: Everything I do will always remind me of you guys. Mr. Cooke, I will remember that I was in your class when the terrorist attack happened. Mr. Crocker, I will remember you because you are the biggest freak I have ever known (you're the coolest). And last and most important Mrs. Tellier. You have had the BIGGEST impact on my life because you have helped me in so many ways. You helped me find out that I want to be a writer, that everything I wished for would one day come true. I will always remember you because you are the greatest friend anyone could ever wish for. I love you guys! July 12, 2002 " Love is the simple language of the heart." Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anusha Ferdinando --- Sri Lanka July 10, 2002 " Listen to your teacher, just once, because you may learn something that will change your life and if you don't learn anything you have not gained nor lost anything, but listen again until you learn something. Another thing: if you are in class you might as well listen because you have nothing else to do or go at that given moment." --- Copyright © 2002 Juan Carlos Otero Teachers do know what you are going through because believe it or not they were once students who listened. July 8, 2002 " Whatever you are, be a good one." --- Abraham Lincoln June 28, 2002 " Student divided by confusion equals algebra." --- Laurie Halse Anderson --- Submitted by Stephie H., Age 14 --- New Jersey June 26, 2002 " If teachers know the answers, why do they ask questions?" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lindsayy F., Age 11 --- Wisconsin June 24, 2002 " One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try." --- Sophocles June 21, 2002 " Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark." --- Anatole France June 19, 2002 " My teacher once told me to express what I felt so she could understand. I have done that and made her cry. I have made people smile, laugh, and be scared. I the writer, made myself so sad. I didn't know who cared, or if anyone cared at all. All I knew was that I needed someone other then myself to make me happy. This person that made me so cheerful, saved me from myself. She guided me through my pain, she wrote something for me. She touched my heart and my soul and continues to help me through. Alone I no longer am because I know now the care I have from you." --- Written by Kandyce S., Age 15 --- Massaachusetts This is to Mrs. Tellier who has done this and I really truly mean that you are the most wonderful amazing teacher that I could ever have. From the bottom of my heart, I say thanks. June 17, 2002 " My high school homeroom teacher, Mr. Little, would always say, right after he took attendance, "People these are the best years of your lives so don't waste this day." I now know how true that was and I tell all kids that each day, but most of all my own children. Thanks Mr. Little of Columbia High School Class of 1984." --- Mr. Little, Columbia High School --- Suubmitted by Richard Marinelli --- New Jersey June 12, 2002 Someone asked my teacher why he was a teacher and not a doctor, scientist, astronomer, or anything Else. Why a teacher? He responded with, "Because without teachers, there would not be those doctors, astronomers, or scientists." --- Mr. Crocker --- Submitted by Kandyce S.., Age 15 --- Massachusetts June 10, 2002 TEACHERS YOU ARE THE BEST Teachers you meet them wherever you go Teachers they are the best on earth you know T is for the Training they impart E if for the Enthusiasm that sets them apart A is for the Appreciation that flows C is for the Care and Concern they show H is for their Honesty, Hard Work and a Heart of Gold E is for the Encouragement and Enterprise that enfolds R is for their Resourcefulness and Readiness to help and advice S is for the Support, Sharing and Sunshine they bring to life. --- Copyright © 2002 Sharon Pires June 7, 2002 " No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest." --- T.S. Eliot June 5, 2002 " A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by VikeStuudent, Age 16 --- Utah Thanks Mrs. Allred! The one thing I know is --YOU'RE AN ANGEL!! June 3, 2002 " I am a teacher. It is the greatest gift that life could give me, since I am allowed to spend my days with the future of the world. My students will be Presidents, Doctors, Lawyers, and Craftspeople; but hopefully they will all be teachers to someone." --- Copyright © 2002 Jack Podojil May 31, 2002 " The other day at school, I was sitting in the hall with some friends doing some homework that I didn't finish. My favorite teacher walks down the hallway and is talking to us and when she was walking off she said, "You know girls when you graduate from high school one day life will really start." I sat around and thought about it all day." --- My Teacher --- Submitted by Danielle W.., Age 15 --- Tennessee May 29, 2002 " A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them." --- Rabindranath Tagore --- Submitted by Riich Totten --- North Carolina Rabindranath Tagore is an Indian Poet who was the Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1913 May 24, 2002 Good Isn't Good Enough ! My Child, beware of "good enough," It isn't made of sterling stuff. It's something anyone can do; It marks the many from the few. The flaw which may escape the eye, And temporarily get by. Shall weaken underneath the strain, And wreck the ship, the car, or plane. With "good enough," the car breaks down, And one falls short of high renown. My child, remember and be wise, In "good enough", disaster lies. With "good enough," the shirkers stop, In every factory and shop; With "good enough," the failures rest, And lose the one who gives the best. Who stops at "good enough" shall find, Success has left them far behind. For this is true of you and your stuff-- Only the best is "good enough." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Elmer WWendt May 22, 2002 " Some people walk into your life and quickly go. Others walk into your life, leave footprints and then leave. After that, you are never, ever the same." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nicole M., Age 17 --- Illinois This fits my life really well, because so many people have walked in and out of my life, but only few have left any footprints in my life. There are a few of my teachers have been there for me throughout my hard times, especially my senior year. They've made me realize that I do have a life to live, and that I want to help people, the exact way they've helped me. So for those teachers: Mr. Popplewell, Miss Panner, Mr. Goodrum, and Miss Jean, thank you so very much for molding me! May 20, 2002 " Oneness is the key to greatness. If we are one in heart and mind, success will crown our persistence and we can face hostility with courage." --- Copyright © 2002 Nicholas Nketiah May 17, 2002 " If you cannot see what could happen, you will never see what must be done." --- Copyright © 2002 Joshua Fitch May 15, 2002 " Sooner or later the chickens come home to roost." --- Mr. Wayne Kleinschmidt --- Submitted byy Julie Blume --- Wisconsin My high school science teacher probably wouldn't believe that I use his quote almost every day in my career as an 8th grade English teacher. Thanks, Mr. Kleinschmidt for teaching me every day of my life. May 13, 2002 " Don't believe in miracles; rely on them." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Eric Grrundy --- Auckland, New Zealand May 10, 2002 " If you can't imagine it, you can never do it." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nicole T., Age 11 --- Ohio May 8, 2002 " Teaching is the choicest of professions because everyone who is anybody was taught how to be somebody by a teacher." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Carmen A., Age 16 --- California This is dedicated to the AVID teachers of East Union High School in Manteca, California May 6, 2002 " The mind is the ultimate intellectual sponge, which should be used to soak up all of the knowledge in the universe, in which it lies." --- Copyright © 2002 David L.Mitchell May 3, 2002 " You Can Make Cans out of Cannots, But You Can Not Make Cannots out of Cans." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jenny WW. --- Texas This quote was up on a tenth grade English teacher's classroom wall. Thank you Mrs. Drury, I've never forgotten that quote (1995-1996) school year. May 1, 2002 " A little child is like a worthless-stone on the road. Teachers make him, shape him, polish him, and shine him to make a gem." --- Copyright © 2002 Mansoor Baig We all should learn to respect our teachers, as if we are anything, credit goes to our teachers too. April 29, 2002 " If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." --- Graffiti in the restroom in Far Easternn University --- Submitted by Jerome Lupisan --- Cavite,, Philippines April 24, 2002 To: MRS. ANNE ALLRED " Teacher is nothing but our future." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Helen HH., Age 16 --- Utah This I understand. When I was in 11th grade, I just hated my English teacher and a lot of kids hated her, but a lot kids just loved her. But at the end of the year, the last class we had, everyone walked out with a tear on their face. Everyone misses her a lot. Now we all walk into her class and say, "You're the best". Everyone understands that she, our English teacher, wants us to teach the future and want us to become a better person. Thank you Mrs. Allred!!!!!! A lot!!!! April 22, 2002 " Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man." --- Swami Vivekananda --- Submitted by Ramkkumar YVS --- A.P., India April 19, 2002 " Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless- each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allow'd the external purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here." --- Walt Whitman --- Submitted by Selena Heenderson --- Nova Scotia, Canada I teach students with special needs and I love to read this quote to them. April 15, 2002 " What gives light must endure burning." --- Viktor Frankl --- Submitted by Matt Wheeeler --- Virginia April 12, 2002 " If you open up a book, it will not teach you, But if you open up the world, then you can teach yourself anything." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chris VV., Age 15 --- Arizona April 10, 2002 " In every school classroom, a student should be able to look around and see a model classroom where there are no safety or health hazards and where skilled instructors are protecting their safety and health by teaching them a professional skill on safe equipment and in a safe and healthful environment." --- Copyright © 1999 Jack Podojil In the State of Minnesota, as in other states, students were being injured on unsafe machinery. This state formed the first machine guarding committee of its kind in the United States to protect young people operating machinery found in metal shops, wood shops and auto shops located in our schools. The team has conducted training for over 800 teachers in the State of Minnesota on this issue and this quote was presented to each teacher to post in the classroom. Now, many schools in the State of Minnesota, California and Washington, with technical classrooms, have adopted this saying. April 8, 2002 " If it wasn't for teachers, where would we be today?" --- Adam J. Conklin --- Pennsylvania April 5, 2002 Ponder this: Would you rather mean a little for a lot or a lot for a little? --- Copyright © 2002 Mike Faulisi April 3, 2002 " Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." Thanks to some special teachers- Ms.Mazzone, Pami --- Written by Jennifer B., Age 16 --- Connnecticut April 1, 2002 " Children's minds are like JELL-O; you must mold them before someone else does!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Arika CClark --- Florida March 27, 2002 " Some teachers come and go Some touch you life forever And then, you are never, ever the same." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vikestuudent, Age 16 --- Utah I have a teacher. Her name is the Mrs. Anne Allred. She was, is and always will be the greatest teacher in whole world. She helped a LOT of students, and she helped me. And this help was everything to me. Thank you, Mrs. Allred. March 25, 2002 " If it weren't for teachers, where would we be today?" --- Sent in by Adam J. Conklin --- Pennsylvvania March 22, 2002 " For those who absolutely hate school: Could you imagine growing up knowing nothing about how the world goes? No lessons about life? Take your average school bully. If you never get over the injuries by yourself, you aren't ever going to get tougher. "As the bamboo faces the wind, it will learn to bend." Keep that in mind." --- Written in 2001 by C.L., Age 14 --- Sinngapore This is one from my little book of quotes (1999-2001). They're just the little lessons I've learned in life. March 20, 2002 " Teachers don't impact for a year, but for a lifetime." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Arika CClark --- Florida March 18, 2002 " A error doesn't become a mistake till you refuse to correct it." --- Author Unknown--- Submitted by Aisling K., Age 15 --- Oklahoma --- Seen on on poster March 15, 2002 " Failing is better than quitting because when you fail, It shows that you've tried your hardest. But when you quit, it shows you don't even bother to try at all." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mey A.,,Age 15 --- California March 13, 2002 " Kindness is the language in which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." --- Mark Twain --- Submitted by Courtney S.., Age 16 --- North Carolina March 11, 2002 " The truly desperate search for meaning in the meaningless; But those who seek are known as the greats of our day." --- Copyright © 2002 Kristi Sitton March 8, 2002 " The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitution for paying attention." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.T. N.., Age 17 --- South Carolina March 6, 2002 " To be a teacher means to learn twice, to accepts new truths day by day; and most of all, to have to desire and will to know the power of one." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Brett KK., Age 15 --- Michigan March 4, 2002 " If you can't fly, it's not because your wings are bad, It's just that you don't even know how to fly." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Brandonn H., Age 15 --- Singapore March 1, 2002 " There are two main teachers in life; education and experience. Experience being the hardest teacher you'll ever have." --- My Teacher --- Submitted by Danielle W.., Age 16 --- Tennessee February 27, 2002 " Knowledge without the ability to think is a total waste; like words written in a book that is never read." --- Copyright © 1999 F. Vice February 22, 2002 " Why need calculators when there are math books? Why need math books when there are computers? Why need computers when there is your imagination (intelligence)?" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.G., AAge 13 --- Illinois February 20, 2002 " A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding." --- Dwight D. Eisenhower --- Submitted by AAmanda S., Age 16 --- North Carolina February 18, 2002 " The highest cost of an education is not getting one!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Robert Caldwell --- North Carolina February 15, 2002 " Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind." --- Mark Twain --- Submitted by S.S. --- Maassachusetts February 13, 2002 " You can do it, there's nothing to it!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jessicaa Coer --- Connecticut (I use this quote to motivate my Preschoolers to try and they love it!!!) February 11, 2002 " Hard lessons are always hard to learn, But those are the ones that will make you succeed in life." --- Written in 2002 by V. Vega February 8, 2002 " My favorite teacher of all times is Ms. Keiwnbata, my global studies teacher when I was 8. She was nice and understanding and always made me smile. I love Ms. Keiwnbata and miss her so much, and I always think of her and miss her especially when I'm in geography class now." --- Loeaza Baddraghama --- Georgia ( New too the U.S.A. - from Africa ) February 6, 2002 We were very fortunate in our part of the world to have known a wonderful man. His name was Bill. He was an elementary school principal like no other I have known. If you telephoned Bill, his secretary would answer "Good Morning, Greatest Elementary School in the World!" Bill took a personal interest in every student, faculty member, and visitor to his school. He collected Disney memorabilia, and would give a tour of his office to every newcomer to his building. New students left with a token of Bill's welcome; a pencil or a piece of candy. New faculty and visitors left with the warm feeling that comes from getting Bill's full attention, concern, and most generous welcome. Bill worked long hours at his school. He was often the first to arrive and the last to leave. He gave his time and attention to each person he came into contact with during his day. He was the first to admit that he was not perfect. He also was well aware that he could not please everyone. Still, he made it his business to let every person he came into contact with, that they were worthwhile and special. Bill chose to involve his school in honoring America's Veterans. He planned and practiced with his students for an elaborate gala performance in honor of Veterans' Day each year. He made sure that all Veterans who wished to attend were able to make it to the performance. The students loved to perform, and the Veterans were deeply honored. Bill was proud of his school. He made sure that there were photos of students, faculty, staff, and Veterans throughout the hallways. He posted awards won by students for academic excellence, citizenship and athletic excellence. He recognized faculty and staff for their efforts by presenting awards for their outstanding service to students. He beamed when he heard of the achievements of those he knew and loved. On weekends, Bill taught classes for teachers throughout the region. The main theme of his classes were "The Power of Positive Education". He worked long hours scheduling expert speakers, gathering materials, and preparing the gymnasium of his school for the classes. Bill wore a tuxedo when he was instructing teachers. He wanted teachers to know that he believed they were very important people, and that he had the utmost respect for their dedication and for their work. Bill provided copies of every positive quote about teaching that he could find. He read inspiring stories about overcoming adversity to become successful students and teachers. Bill taught for many years before he was a principal. He understood how teachers can feel undervalued -based on public opinion - and based on small salaries. Bill made his classes for teachers a celebration in honor of teachers and their work. He took the opportunity in his classes to let the attendees SHINE. As final projects, each participant would share the secrets of their success in the classroom. Bill kept a file of all of the presentations, and was proud to share ideas with new classes. When Bill died suddenly, in 1999, there was an outpouring of grief over his loss, and a huge celebration of his life. At Bill's wake, Bill's fiancée and family listened to story after story of how he inspired and encouraged every person that he met. His funeral service was overflowing with students, teachers, Veterans and friends. At his school, hundreds of bouquets, banners and stuffed animals surrounded the flag pole in honor of a life well lived. Bill expressed his gratitude to teachers everyday. He honored and valued the goals of his students. He was the world's greatest principal and the loudest cheerleader for all teachers. He certainly touched the future by encouraging teachers and students to do what they do best - and to feel good about it. Many of the quotes Bill shared with teachers are found on the website. One of my favorites that Bill shared with us is "Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible". I'm grateful to have known Bill. His memory will continue in the positive messages and works of the teachers he instructed. --- Copyright © 2001 Ellen McCafferty February 4, 2002 " In a world full of sheep, be a Shepherd!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michaell Luzzi --- New Jersey February 1, 2002 " The innocence in a child's eyes touches our soul like no other. Without words, children remind us of our own innocence and help us bring to mind something that may have been long forgotten.......our own ability to love without condition." --- Copyright © 2000 Steve Ake January 30, 2002 " Others may be there to help us, teach us, and guide us But the lesson to be learned is always ours." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Crystall S., Age 17 --- Massachusetts January 28, 2002 " If others say it's impossible, go for the challenge and try!" --- Copyright © 2002 Jacqui Reinhart January 25, 2002 " Teachers can be paid to make students do work and acquire average grades, but it is when that student leaves a course with great passion and understanding for what was taught to them that a teacher has worked to their fullest potential." --- Copyright © 2001 Britta Reshan January 23, 2002 " I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized." --- Haim Ginott --- Submitted by Cathy Langgford --- New Mexico January 21, 2002 " Imagine... Dream... Believe... Achieve." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Amy A.,, Age 17 --- New York January 18, 2002 " When you open your mouth to speak, you reveal a great deal. The words you use and the way you speak are like a blueprint of who you are deep inside." --- Robert K. Dellenbach --- Submitted by AAna Paula --- Chubut, Argentina January 16, 2002 " No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Murali Duggineni --- Andhra Pradesh, India January 14, 2002 " What's down in your well comes up in your bucket." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.L. ---- Colorado January 11, 2002 " Dreams are nature's way of letting you know what you're capable of." --- Copyright © 2002 Ray Ramirez January 9, 2002 " Even the greatest of people fall. What makes them great is that they have the courage to stand back up." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sarah MM., Age 13 --- Pennsylvania January 7, 2002 MOST FORTUNATE OF MEN " I am that most fortunate of men for I am eternal. Others live merely in the world of today; I live in the world of tomorrow. Others find purpose in the transient and the temporal; I find meaning in the enduring and the eternal. For I am charged with that most sacred mission - to transmit all that our forebears lived for, loved for, and died for to the next generation. I span the generations - making the wisdom of the past live now so that the future will have meaning. I make wisdom live, for I am no mere bearer of knowledge. I do not simply teach the mind; I reach the heart and - when I reach the heart; I touch the soul. To those who say two generations hence what will I be if not a distant memory, I respond: Though the mind fades, memories linger. Though the body fails, the spirit prevails. Though the scroll burns, the letters dance in the air." --- Rabbi Zev Schostak --- Submitted by F. Vice --- Texas January 4, 2002 " Angels are students in Heaven and teachers on Earth." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Tracy BBeaman --- North Carolina January 2, 2002 " Life isn't what you expect it to be, it's what you make it." --- Copyright © 2001 Shawn Easley December 21, 2001 " Be the best you can be." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Aliash M., Age 9 --- Ontario, Canada December 19, 2001 " If you get too far into it, you're out of it." --- Copyright © 1995 Tom Giammona (This had to do with students focusing too deep on one particular problem.) December 17, 2001 " Yard by yard, life is very hard, But inch by inch, it's a cinch!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Daphne Allenberg --- British Columbia, Canada December 14, 2001 " Children are the only future the human race will ever have. Teach them well." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Cynthiaa Udell --- Michigan December 12, 2001 " There can be so much tugging at your students' minds and hearts - troubled family situations, changing friendships, uncertainties, doubts, and fears. Be aware of them as a whole person." --- Karen Katafiasz --- Submitted by D. Peiirlloux --- Louisiana December 10, 2001 " To be the best, all you need to give is all you have. Never under estimate yourself, because you have what it takes to be the best." --- Copyright © 2001 Viola Carrasco-Rodriguuez December 7, 2001 " It is far scarier to live in a box Than to be afraid to open the door." --- Copyright © 2001 Michelle Ewens (Your job is to expand the original thoughts of young people.) December 5, 2001 " I had a teacher who played for an international sports team. She inspired me to proceed when I was near to giving up and told me that I shouldn't follow anyone because then, the best I'd ever be was second best." --- lomu --- Submitted by Mina S., Age 17 ---- Sydney, Australia December 3, 2001 A Gift to Your Child " Your child will not remember your wealth or fame, as it would not be for them to gain. Your child will not appreciate your achievement, big or small, for they have their own little war. It is your daily actions, they will learn, which will be their weapon in life's unpredictable turns. May the result good or not, it hedges on your daily thought. What have you taught your child today?" --- Copyright © 2001 Christopher Loke November 30, 2001 " Practice what you preach." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by S. Mohaan --- Karnataka, India November 28, 2001 " Model for kids and let them watch. That way they can practice a new way to learn --- trial and success." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Russ Heerron --- Arizona November 26, 2001 " Once a teacher, always a student." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Maria BB. --- New York November 21, 2001 When I start my freshman year in high school, I thought it was going to be the worst year ever. None of my friends were in any of my classes and I never saw them either. Transferring schools, too, made it harder on me plus I wasn't doing too well in my classes. I had been going through a lot lately with my parents' divorce and personal issues. I dreaded coming to school for about the first 3 or 4 months. One of my teachers, Ms. LoPiano, made an impact on my life so much that I will never forget her. Ms. LoPiano was my history teacher. It was her first year teaching, right out of college and only 22. She was pretty cool and I remember walking into her room and just smiling because I loved her class so much and being in her presence. I also remember that every time I walked into the room, she asked me how I was and what was going on. She was just one of those people who could brighten up the room with her smile. One day I stayed after school with her just to talk and go for help. I told her what was going on in my life and about most of my problems w/my parents and my own. After that we got closer and talked every day. She became like a older sister to me and sometime acted like my mom. I have always looked up to her as a role model or a mentor to guide me through the tough times in my life. I loved being with her and just knowing that she was there for me. I knew I could confide in her everything that had been going in my life for the past 2 years and that she was some one who could understand and not judge me on that. She made me believe in myself and gave me self-confidence which I never had. For all the love, support, care and friendship that she gave me - no one can ever replace her. She was always there for me for that I can never repay her. She taught me more than just about life. She taught me how to deal with it and cope with anything that came my way. She made me feel good about who I was and gave me reasons to live and make do with what I have. She will never understand how much I care and love her and for all that she has done for me - I would just like to thank her for everything. She will remain in my heart and life forever and always. --- Written in 2001 by Mer Moore November 19, 2001 " All the flowers, of all the tomorrows, are in the seeds of today." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ali Lafcioglu --- Sarajevoo, Bosnia and Herzegovina November 16, 2001 " Has anyone ever had a teacher that meant the world to you? Well I sure have; Mrs. Sandra Riggins. There was a time in my life were I need someone to care. That time must have been the start of my 10th grade year. I was a mess. But Mrs. Riggins was always there for me, she was behind me 100%. I never had to think twice if she would still be there tomorrow because even after all the trouble we have had, she was still there when I needed her. I know even after I graduate from High School, you'll always have a part of me that I can never get back. She's the one person in my life that I can honestly say I trust the most. At times it scares me, but I know that you would never intentional hurt me. Not only because she told me so but because I know what a type a person she is. She's more then a teacher; she's a huge part of my life. I would like to thank her for everything. Thank you MRS. SANDRA RIGGINS! I will never forget everything you have done for me and I hope you will never forget me!" --- Written by Carmen A., Age 16 --- Califoornia November 14, 2001 " Teacher is he/she who knows something that other people don't. Teacher is he/she who shares everything even when he/she is in sorrow. Teacher is he/she who shows their smiling face even if they are angry." --- Copyright © 2001 Shyam Laishram November 12, 2001 " The desire to win means nothing without the discipline to prepare." --- Copyright © 2001 D. Jones November 9, 2001 " I am in 8th grade and have the best history teacher ever!! She is so cool! We can say anything in front of her or to her and we know she isn't going to get mad. She is like a kid and I think it is important for kids to have a teacher they feel comfortable around. Not that I don't feel comfortable around the other teachers, it's just that around her we can say kid stuff...things you would be embarrassed to say around other teachers. She jokes with us and everything and it's cool we have someone like her. She is the best ever!! " --- Written by Rebecca S., Age 14 --- Alabaama November 7, 2001 " Teachers rule and they are cool." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by L.W. ---- New York November 5, 2001 Throughout my life, I have been inspired by great teachers; teachers that influenced me in so many ways, yet they did not know. Out of all the great teachers I had, Mrs. Greenblatt influenced me like no one in my life. Mrs. Greenblatt was my Humanities teacher in high school. She was very lively and always spoke about life with a passion, like no one I've met. She taught me many great things, everything from Freud to finding the ideal mate. Everyone liked her. The students used to make fun of her behind her back because she would readjust her wig every to often. She was beautiful, despite her wig. One day in class, after Mrs. Greenblatt had returned from a trip, she opened herself up to the class and told us why she wore a wig. She was struggling with lung cancer. She spoke to us with great confidence and told us that she would fight it. The thought of retiring was not an option because "we kept her alive and going". I could have never imagined that she felt that way about us, her students. After that year, I went of to college and promised her that I would return and visit. When I eventually visited her, Mrs. Greenblatt immediately hugged me and told me that her cancer was gone. She had grown hair and looked great! I had never felt to happy for anyone before! I then again promised her that I would return and keep her updated about my "college life". She even gave me her home address and her telephone number to keep in touch. A couple of months later, I heard she had passed away. I couldn't understand why. Why did the cancer return? I was confused and upset at life because it wasn't fair that SHE had to die, she still had a lot life in her. What affects me the most after this day, is that I never had the chance to tell her that she was the greatest person that I have ever met. Even though she is gone, her spirit remains with me were ever I go. Every day I think of her and how much she has taught me. She went beyond her duties and taught me a great deal about life. How can a teacher affect a student so much? Mrs. Greenblatt affected my life forever. Now I'm in college and pursuing a career in Education. I want to be like her and motivate students in many ways just like she did. Her spirit will remain with me forever. --- Copyright © 2001 Maria Mora November 2, 2001 " To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage." --- Jim Bishop, columnist --- Submitted by Joseph W., Age 17 --- Pennsylvania October 31, 2001 " A teacher is a special FRIEND Whose love and kindness never ends." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kiara HH., Age 12 --- Virginia October 29, 2001 " If you say I give up, you lose. If you say I'll try, you might just win; But only you've got the power to choose." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by D.T., AAge 13 --- Illinois October 26, 2001 " There is no such thing as a bad experience; There is only unpleasant and pleasant." --- Copyright © 2001 J. Falcone October 24, 2001 " The winner doesn't always win, but keeps trying. The loser doesn't always lose, but gives up." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by D.L., AAge 16 --- Victoria, Australia October 22, 2001 " Laughter precedes learning." --- Copyright © 2000 Dorothy Lynn October 19, 2001 " Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw --- Submitted by Saara H., Age 17 --- Florida October 17, 2001 " Strive to be the teacher that students remember long after they've graduated. When they do, you know you've truly touched their lives forever." --- Copyright © 2001 Vanessa Paje I am a teacher because I was inspired by one. Not just an ordinary teacher. But an EXTRAORDINARY teacher. He was my high school science teacher, Mr. Dorsa. I didn't just learn about cell biology, or what ligaments in our knees make it possible to walk. I learned about life. He taught me to believe in myself, to reach beyond the stars. He believed in all of his students. I graduated HS in 1995. I went back recently for a visit. His walls are covered with thank you letters and sentiments from former students. And I thought to myself, Wow. After so many years, students still write about how much they miss him and his class. This is the kind of teacher I strive to be. And I believe that I will be! October 15, 2001 " Although we may not always understand, all things happen for a reason." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ali Lafcioglu --- Sarajevoo, Bosnia and Herzegovina October 12, 2001 " The desire to do something is the proof of our potential to do it." --- Eric Butterworth --- Submitted by Muralli Duggineni --- Andhra Pradesh, India October 10, 2001 " The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow Where only one grew before." --- Elbert Hubbard --- Submitted by L.D., AAge 17 --- South Carolina October 8, 2001 " Knowledge is the power to think clearly and to appreciate life." --- Brigham Young --- Submitted by Ana Paulla --- Argentina October 5, 2001 " But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, To know in measure what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, As nourishment to wind." --- Milton --- Submitted by Dick Mozzer ---- Connecticut October 3, 2001 " When I look in the mirror, I just want to like myself...that's all. And if I like myself, then I look good." --- Gia Marie Carangi --- Submitted by Sonjja Rideout --- California October 1, 2001 " To say one does not judge, one would not be human." --- Copyright © 2001 Jackie Luster September 28, 2001 " Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." --- Taro Gold --- Submitted by Carol Millerr --- California September 26, 2001 " Teaching is the highest form of understanding." --- Aristotle --- Submitted by Axel K., Agee 13 --- Colorado September 24, 2001 " It is up to man what he becomes." --- Louis L'Amour --- Submitted by Chen Fawwn Meng --- Malaysia September 21, 2001 That Successful Man So many things I want to say, but I don't know where to start, What I say about this successful man, is coming from my heart, The first time I saw and spoke with him at my interview I thought "Success" He was young and successful, I knew, I didn't need to guess, I got my roster, Mr. Bane's Large Animal Science was my first Ag class of many, I had hopes and dreams that I would accomplish plenty, When I first walked in to his class from the hall, He stood waiting in his doorway, standing very tall, Then I learned his mood and attitude, I knew it could be hard I never wanted to admit it, but mine was just as bad, Every day he'd come in and said "PUT THE CHICKS DOWN!" He looked at me meanly, because I was always mouthing and messing around, Many times I got mad at him and I argued with determination, But he would never yell, in his stern voice say "Nicole, end of conversation" He said to me you get more with honey then vinegar time and time again, But I just kept giving mouth and attitude, so he would make me clean the pig's pen, He finally let me take my pig home, I wanted to keep him longer so I called to ask him on the phone, He told me NO he could not stay, Buddy better be back in his classroom that very next day, I felt he was way too tough on me, The word "No" from him to me came so easily, But for some reason I had a feeling he did it for my own good, Because he was always there to help me study whenever he could, I get frustrated because I can't concentrate to take a test I try the best I can, But he has this special way of teaching that helps me to comprehend, My friends say he was my dad and call me young Bane, I'll always be so proud of that and never feel ashamed, He does remind me of my dad at hand, But I only wish my dad was that successful man, "No!" if only I could have, That successful man as a dad, So many times we would get so very close, But then something would go wrong, I hated that most, But I always acted like it didn't bother me and tried to stay real strong, By using mouth and attitude, that's where I went wrong, He then would become mad distance and cold, My stubbornness matched his as I became mouthy, rude and bold, Then one day it was too much for me to handle, Mr. Holly called a meeting, but I felt like I was in a scandal, I wouldn't feel any better until I told him just how I felt inside, But I couldn't talk any longer so what I did was broke down and cried, Then he said so kindly, "it's okay Kiddo" I felt so much better that he could say so, I felt better knowing he understood me and my feelings were not sore, I want to be just like him, he's a Great person, I couldn't ask for any more, He has forgiven me for that one horrible thing I once did before, And the million times I walked out of his classroom, pissed off slamming his door, So we had some conflicts, doesn't matter who's at fault, What matters is we got through them, with understanding, forgiveness, and a lot of thought, We went to the farm show, it was awesome, we had a ball, A wonderful experience, and great conversation in the hall, The trips we took were always so educational and fun, But that was because they were planned by that successful one, I learned so much from all he's taught, Because everything he did always came with a lot of thought, I still remember and use it today When I'm lost and confused, that knowledge helps me find my way, He's an awesome teacher and very dedicated to us all, That's why he was the most popular teacher here at Saul, One day he said he got a new job and was moving away, I acted like it didn't bother me and said "Hey, that's okay" But inside I was really hurt, sad and scared, Knowing that successful man, would no longer be there, I always knew that day would soon come, Someone else would offer him a better job, Because he was that successful one, I prayed to God we'd stay in touch, When that last day of school came, I wanted to say so much, But at the time I felt he took it as a relief, And all hope of staying in touch, would surely decrease, I wanted to tell him how I felt and that it hurt me so bad inside, But I thought if I did, all I would do is break down and cry, Knowing he was leaving and I'd never see him again, Just made me want that last day, to never end, I love and care about him more then I can ever say, And it hurts me so badly that he had to moved away, I look up and respect him more then he will ever know, I can put my feelings on paper, but my feelings I can never show, That successful man became an inspiration to my life, He had become my role model, I felt I lost him without a fight, I wish I could tell him just how very much he means to me, I want to be just like that successful man, as you can see, When I started school again things were not the same, When I needed guidance, I could no longer go to Mr. Bane, I tried to hold my head up high and always do as he taught, When I had questions, in his teachings, my answers were sought, Then one day, he called my mom and their friendship would begin to mend, If there were any problems left between them, I just wanted them to end, The farm show came and he was missed, Things weren't on schedule nothing was hit, No fun, No motivation, it just wasn't the same, And that was all because there was no Mr. Bane, No American pie, No ball to play, I wish he had never moved away, But I held my head up high and helped like I was told, He said "No attitude No mouth! Be nice Nicole!" I'm so happy we talk I hope we never stop, I'm loved like a daughter, and he is loved like a pop, At one time to me his name was Mr. Bane, He's now Jay but still that successful man is the same, He loves and cares for me and gives me great advice, Some times he can be mean, but mostly he's really cool and nice, One day he said to my mom "I think Nicole has ADHD" I was scared but then realized a successful man had it, the same as me, He talks to my counselor and makes suggestions to my mom, He says to me "Love ya kiddo, don't worry just stay calm" I always listen to what he says very close, I feel he's smarter, he cares, and he knows the most, Over the months we became even closer you can see, But I still got scared he stop talking, caring, and give up on me, But then one day he told me he never would, I believe him, because I trust him, like ways that I could, It's very important what he thinks and says to me, I'm going to follow in his foot steps and be successful he will see, Even though he lives a 1000 miles away, Somehow he always knows if I mouth off that day, When I do things wrong he gets angry, upset and mad, I know I disappointed him, and it makes me feel so bad, I know better than to be disrespectful, give attitude, or mouth, If I do, I'll be spending some time in the house, When he gets pissed off at me the things he does I don't like, But I soon realized after, its only because he loves me, so I feel he was right, He does those things to me because he cares, He wants his success to be mine to share, He tells me nothing comes easy, work hard at everything I do, "You must constantly work at improving Nicole" I know what he says is true, School is a struggle, some times I want to throw in the cup, But he won't let me, he'll call up and say "Hey Kiddo, what's up!!" He has a way with me like no other, He can get through to me more than anyone, including my mother, I'll always remember all he has done for me, One day when he needs me I'll be there for him, he'll see, It's so cool how he made everything he did very educational, but also so much fun. But like I said before, its because he's that successful one, And ever though he not here and he's sadly missed, He'll always be number one at the top of my list, Any school who gets him, for them he'll be a plus, He's awesome, dynamic, a great education to him is a MUST, Things at Saul are so dim, boring and plain, Our school without him, is definitely not the same, I wonder if he would ever come back to stay, Maybe if they gave him what he deserves, "Which is a heck of a lot more pay!" That Successful Mans name is Bane, I only wish mine was the same. --- Copyright © 2001 Ryan Nicole Flynn September 19, 2001 " I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.S. ---- Missouri September 17, 2001 " The first three letters of Success are TRY." --- Copyright © 1995 John T. Matsik September 10, 2001 " I would like to write about a special teacher that has changed my life. I was the worse student in class, failing almost every subject I took. Many of my subject teachers hated me because I did very badly, some even wanted to force me to drop their subjects, and were even very unhappy with me when I did not. I thought that all my teachers hated me until my form teacher talked to me one day. She expressed so much concern for me until I cried. And when she knew I was feeling very stressed, she took time off to talk to me, tell me never to give up. She was the only teacher that's been so nice to me despite my lousy results. Thank you Mrs. Josephine Sherwood. You have indeed make a difference in my life. Even if I do not make it for my 'O' Levels, I would like you to know that you've really been great to me and I love you a lot. Thank you." --- Written by Anonymous, Age 16 --- Singappore September 7, 2001 " When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name -- He marks not that you won or lost -- but how you played the game." --- Grantland Rice --- Submitted by Submittted by Prosper Walker --- Texas September 5, 2001 " There is no past or future just the present, and it's what we do in the present that will make the future and write the past." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Brett WW., Age 17 --- Victoria, Australia August 31, 2001 " Seek for understanding & you will seek no more." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nohealaani M., Age 15 --- Hawaii August 29, 2001 " It is not whether you failed or succeeded this time that matters. It's the fact that you chose to try this time, that gives you the right to try it again, knowing now how not to fail the next time." --- Copyright © 2001 Mike Claggett August 27, 2001 " One cannot go back and make a brand new beginning; but they can start at this point, and create a brand new ending." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kait R.., Age 17 --- Ontario, Canada August 24, 2001 " A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." --- Patricia Neal --- Submitted by Chetan CChopra --- Washington August 22, 2001 " Believe in children, there is faith in their eyes, love in their touch, kindness in their gestures. Thrill with them at life's big and small moments, hold them close." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nacole Powers --- Oregon August 20, 2001 " Even a broken clock is right twice a day." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ryan ---- Florida August 17, 2001 " Worrying about your past won't help your future." --- Copyright © 2001 Ariana Sykes August 15, 2001 " Not everyone who fails should be considered a failure. At some point in our lives we all fail in some way. A failure is one who spends more time looking for explanations or excuses for failing than means to succeed." --- Copyright © 2001 Billy Sizemore August 13, 2001 " Hard work, dedication and desire don't guarantee you a thing, But without them you don't stand a chance." --- Pat Riley --- Submitted by K.S., Age 188 --- Illinois August 10, 2001 " I'm learning.... Only you can make yourself fail and only you can allow yourself to succeed." --- Jay Bane --- Submitted by Nicole F., Agge 15 --- Pennsylvania August 8, 2001 " Understanding success, means first understanding failure; For without failure, there is no possibility of success." --- Copyright © 2001 Brandon Weekes August 6, 2001 There was once a small child. Her name was Alex. One day she was sitting in school and her teacher told the class they had to write a report on what they thought the meaning of life was to them. Well soon after all the moans and groans the bell rang and school was dismissed for the weekend. Finally Monday came; it was back to school for Alex. That morning the children had to read their essays about the meaning of life to the class. Almost all the students had read theirs and then when the teacher called Alex to the front of the class. She had no paper in her hand but yet her head was held up high. The teacher asked Alex, "Where is your paper?", and with all the pride little Alex had she said, "I didn't write a paper". Then Alex went on to say what she thought was the meaning of life. She said that the meaning of life had nothing to do with how long a paper had to be or what kind of grade you get for that paper. She said that God put us all on earth for a reason and if you spend your weekend writing a paper, then you may never know what that reason is. So she spent her weekend looking for that reason. --- Written by Ashley R., Age 12 --- Virginnia August 3, 2001 " Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." --- Confucius --- Submitted by Heidi L., Agge 17 --- California August 1, 2001 " The greatest mistake you can make in life Is to be continually fearing you will make one." --- Elbert Hubbard --- Submitted by Luanne C. --- Arizona July 30, 2001 " If a task is once begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the project great or small, do it well or not at all." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by S.F., AAge 18 --- Alberta, Canada July 25, 2001 " If a child thinks that they have no strengths or special abilities compared to everyone else, then it is the fault of the parent. It is the parent's responsibility to find out what the child's strengths are and help that child develop them. Every child has strengths. Find them and promote them." --- Copyright © 2001 Owen Redmond July 23, 2001 " Great things are worth working for!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Aaron RR., Age 12 --- Florida July 20, 2001 " To teach children to choose the right choice, Is the only lesson we need choose to teach." --- Copyright © 2001 M.L. Sargent July 18, 2001 " To a teacher, refills on learning are always free!" --- Copyright © 2001 LisaMarie Bradley July 16, 2001 " Once you succeed, you will not settle for failure." --- O. Dellanno I am a teacher, and I am always trying to come up with quotes to motivate my students. I teach sixth grade students, and I am often told, "How Brave!" I enjoy working with this age group. These students come from a diverse socioeconomic status. I have found that the trick to working with this age students is to set high expectations and address them as individuals. Show a lot of respect for each student and expect respect in return. July 13, 2001 " Knowledge is not fully appreciated via education, But rather through the love of learning." --- Copyright © 2001 Julian Don July 11, 2001 And Then She Smiled (For Ms. Legg) I didn't know who she was--had never heard of her. But, then again, "all God's angels come to us disguised," as James Lowell put it. High school hadn't started out well for me--by the end of my first day of 9th grade I was already praying for it to be over. As I walked to my last class, I found myself in a daze and had made up my mind that I was going to hate high school. But then I walked through the door, and a sudden calmness swept over me. I looked at the young blonde woman standing before me, and then she smiled. For the next ninety minutes, I sat in my seat mesmerized by her ability to hold my attention and make me laugh at the drop of a hat--I never wanted to leave. Of course the bell eventually rang, and I practically ran down the hall to get to my car. The very first thing I told my mom was that I already knew one teacher I was going to love--it was the young woman. In little over ninety minutes she had become my favorite teacher and had completely won me over. Every day, from then on, I woke up with a smile on my face simply because I knew I was going to end the day with her. The funny thing is, though, I never spoke a word to her in 9th grade except to answer the occasional questions she threw at me. She just seemed to be my complete opposite and I didn't know how to approach her. At the end of that year I wrote her a letter and plopped it on her desk the last day of school. In it, I had said everything I couldn't bring myself to tell her face-to-face, that she had changed my life and was my absolute favorite. The next year I had her for World Geography and, yet again, she was the last teacher I was scheduled to see the first day of school. I was excited, but nervous because I didn't know how she had reacted to my letter. As I walked to her class I became very uptight, but, once again, I walked through her door, and that calmness swept over me just as it had before. She was the same lady I had met a year ago--hadn't changed at all--I still found myself mesmerized by everything about her. But this time, I didn't run to my car when the bell rang. I had to stay after that day, so I decided I would confront her about my letter. To my utter amazement, she hugged me and told me it had made her cry, and, as they say, the rest is history. I came after school almost every other day to talk to her, and over the course of the year we became very close. Unfortunately, that was her last year; she walked away in hopes of finding a job closer to home. As fate would have it, she ended up in a middle school just as far away, and I ended up in my 11th grade year alone and lost. But she and I stayed in touch through e-mails, and we pulled each other through this past year. I got out of school a week before her, so we made a plan for me to visit her one day since we hadn't even seen each once after she left. When I walked into her room, a familiar calmness flowed through me, and I realized how much I had missed her. I sat at her desk and watched her stand in front of those 7th graders, and I wished more than anything that I could be one of them, that I could be her student again. She introduced me to all her classes as a former student of hers--one of her best--and told them how talented I was and about different awards I had won and on and on. But her praise didn't mean half as much to me as what happened when she was through talking: she turned to me with a sparkle in her eye....and then she smiled....and for a brief moment I saw the young blonde woman standing before me again. --- Copyright © 2001 Rhae Lindsey July 9, 2001 " A face without freckles is like a sky without stars." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Shelly Osthus --- South Dakota July 6, 2001 " Don't tell that the problem is difficult. If it is not difficult, then it might not be a problem." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Moiz K.., Age 17 --- Andhra Pradesh, India July 2, 2001 "Principles of Athletic Training" was a class I took so I wouldn't have to take PE, and I would get to have off-campus lunch my junior year. I had no idea that the teacher of this class would become my biggest inspiration. The class was held at my high school's rival high school. It was a class in which kids from all of the high schools in the district got to take a class together. My teacher, Lisa, brought us together. She took a group of students not wanting to have anything to do with one another, to being the best of friends. The year started out with the students from high schools other than CW (Where the class was held) calling her "Ms. Marchese." The CW students called her "Lisa" because they were used to calling her by her first name because she was also the athletic trainer at the school at the time. Eventually everyone called her "Lisa" which I had a problem with at first. I thought I would be showing a lack of respect by addressing her by her first name, putting myself on the same level as her. I quickly learned though that she didn't think she was above any of her students, she was just like them, with a little bit more life experience. To some, getting a teacher to attend a student's sporting event is a great task. Lisa went so far above and beyond this, it is hard to express. We, as a class, would go to lunch together. Even when her husband came to class one day to take her to lunch, they both went to lunch with us. When some classmates and I would go run on the weekends, sometimes we would run through her neighborhood and stop by to say "Hi." She would always invite us in to get something to drink or just chat. Lisa would even go rollerblading with us. She related to all of the students on such a personal level. Every time we would share with her something about our life, she would share something about hers. So rarely do I see a teacher open up to her students like this. It was almost surreal. The class was so fun too. Gone were the tons of book work implemented by other teachers. They were replaced with hands-on learning. When we were learning how to splint injuries (Broken bones, etc.), we played a game we dubbed "Rescue 911." In the middle of the high school quad, we had people pretend they were severely injured. We had to splint the mock injury, notify emergency services, and transport the injured person if needed. I learned so many things in that class that help me in life everyday. I cannot thank her enough. Lisa has been a counselor, friend, teacher, athletic trainer, you name it, she's done it. For all of this, we threw her a pool party at the end of the year at my house. Our class presented her with a poem expressing our thanks, and recalling memorable moments from the year. She read the whole thing out loud and cried the whole way through it. We ended it with some words from a favorite song by Vitamin C: "This isn't good-bye...this is just our time to fly." I would like to tell her thank you for giving me the wings to take off on this flight toward my next destination in life. Lisa was the greatest teacher I have ever had, and made my junior year the greatest year of my life. --- Written by Shana S., Age 17 --- Califorrnia June 29, 2001 " EVOLUTION: The required growth and adaptation of a being to avoid extinction." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by D.M. ---- Saskatchewan, Canada June 27, 2001 " The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Albert Ong --- Georgetown-Penang, Malaysia June 22, 2001 " Everyday our lives are influenced by many people. Everyday a student is actively making the choice of who they will become. Teachers, you are teaching not only information but life lessons, everyday you have the chance to make a difference in a student's life. If you choose to make the best of this special gift, you will be doing your part to make the world a better place." --- Written by A.B., Age 16 --- Washington Thanks to all my teachers for helping to make me the strong, smart and independent person I am today. I will remember you always! June 20, 2001 THE GREATEST GIFT " I have just concluded my first year of teaching and received a moving and inspirational gift from one of my students on the last day of school. I work at a Title One school where the majority of the students come from single parent homes and usually live in nearby housing projects. This was case for one of my students, Ruth. In the midst of a very hectic last day, I received a few gifts from some of the students including a lovely candle, nice bookends, and a beautiful collage. But from Ruth I received something different....only a piece of typing paper folded up like a letter. When I opened the letter, there was a picture of our school she had drawn. In the area where our school's name is located, she wrote "School is home with Ms. Lempka as my teacher." I will cherish this picture forever." --- Kelly Lempka --- Texas June 18, 2001 " A teacher is not limited to the constricting walls of a classroom, nor to the monotonous worksheets that are passed about their homeroom. Teachers must long to nurture their student as children, their children, desiring to teach each individual indifferently, with the greatest of care and patience. We can only try our best, knowing even that may not be enough. We must give it our all and be satisfied, but not to the point that we no long strive to raise the standards. Laugh, cry, grieve and sigh but be grateful in all circumstances realizing there is always someone behind the scenes who appreciates your efforts and is inspired by your perseverance. Give generously for you seek not to please yourself but others: that should be your life's goal. Serve others first for in doing so you will realize the one who truly benefits. As a teacher, satisfaction is minimal and gratification eccentric but admiration is manifested among those who are taught. You motivate us as the future of this country to try, and when we fall, to pick up with more force than before. Please continue, for even though we seem bored and our grades may only be "satisfactory", you are not a failure. For you have taught us much more than about right triangles, profound literature or the Civil War. You have taught about life. So yes, you have succeeded." --- Copyright © 2001 Karie Barnett June 15, 2001 " Children are like seeds; all the same, until someone comes along to influence their growth." --- Copyright © 2001 Ashely Connell June 13, 2001 Being a student Is a full-time adventure, Of smiles and tears, Courage and fears, Dreams and demands, Questions and answers... Being a student Means balancing all this, While reaching for the stars, At the same time. As you graduate, You should be proud of all you have accomplished-- Because you really are, Someone truly amazing! --- Copyright © 2001 Baily Brittain June 11, 2001 " The highest rated school of learning I have found is free to attend, accepts everyone, has no age limit, and it's main entrance qualifications are two; common sense and an open mind. It is the school of Life." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by L.H. ---- California June 8, 2001 " Train to lead, lead by example." --- Copyright © 2000 David T. Tolbert June 6, 2001 " Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Submitted by A.. Kelley --- New Hampshire June 4, 2001 " The best of men is only a man at best." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Martin Jones --- Bucks, United Kingdom As teachers we can sometimes expect too much from our students. This reminds me that some people are "flat out" on other people's "mediocre". June 1, 2001 " Knowing my pupils helps me to accept who they are and to help them become what they can be." --- Copyright © 2000 Lim Cheng Yong May 30, 2001 " All teachers make a footprint on a student's life, some just make a deeper one than others. Thank you to all the teachers out there willing to go the extra mile to make a difference in a child's life. Mrs. L., thank you for making my 8th grade year one of the best of my life. You taught me more than history of our nation, you taught me history about life. Thank you!" --- Caitlin B., Age 14 --- Kansas May 25, 2001 " If you can read this, thank a teacher!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nathan H., Age 17 --- Tennessee May 23, 2001 Dedicated to Mrs. Michelle Walters "A real teacher knows a student struggles and takes the time to pick that student up and bring her back to her feet. A real teacher cares enough to let you turn that forgotten assignment in at least at the end of the day. A real teacher is human and therefore a real teacher treats a student as a human with respect, understanding, fairness, compassion, and most of all with patience." --- Copyright © 2001 Jessica Siefert Even though I'm not the smartest, Mrs. Walters, you took the time to look at me as a person instead of just another dumb high school senior waiting to get out. May 21, 2001 " Keep up your hopes, hold onto your dreams and one day You might accomplish all those things." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Christiina S., Age 12 --- Florida May 18, 2001 " Music Teacher ... One who serves with dedication... Leads with inspiration... Shares the gift of music... And deserves appreciation!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.F., AAge 17 --- Ontario, Canada May 16, 2001 " If you aren't going to try, don't waste everyone else's time. If you want to succeed, prove to yourself you can do the work, Then prove it to everyone else." --- Copyright © 2001 Chon May 14, 2001 " We should treat students not as students But as people who are learning." --- Copyright © 2001 Terrence Chiew May 11, 2001 " Who greets you with a smile even in the early morning? Who acknowledges you in the midst of a crowd? Who gives you a smile that means the world? Who offers you help, advice, and guidance when times are rough? Who always has an empty shoulder for you to lean on? Who listens to every pointless story you have to tell? Who makes a boring subject fun and interesting? Who likes you for who you are on the inside and not the outside? Who teaches you all you need to know to succeed not only academically but in life? Teachers. They hold your hand when you are scared, they are your map when you've lost your way, they are your sunshine when you've reached a goal. They are so much more then they are said to be. Everybody who is anybody was taught how to be somebody by a teacher." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kates, Age 18 --- New Jersey May 7, 2001 " The most awesome privilege a teacher has is to nourish a child's imagination, creativity, and intelligence!" --- Copyright © 2000 Norma A. De Leon (Texaas Teacher) May 4, 2001 " Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way." --- Copyright © 2000 George Evans May 2, 2001 " Let curiosity be your best teacher." --- Anne M., Age 14 --- Indiana April 30, 2001 " Teaching is not a profession, it's a passion." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by A. Schooen --- North Carolina April 27, 2001 " The key to happiness is freedom, and the key to freedom is courage." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Steven Matthews --- Pennsylvania April 25, 2001 " The greatest teachers I've ever met didn't teach me facts from a textbook. They taught me about myself and about the kind of person that I want to be. Teachers don't always realize the impact that they can have on a person's life. You DO make a difference every day. Thanks AM, KW, and LC - the best teachers ever." --- Michelle S., Age 19 --- Ontario, Canadaa April 23, 2001 " It is easy to teach, but it is painfully difficult to be a teacher." --- Copyright © 2001 Daniel Engstrom April 20, 2001 " Positive thinking creates a positive mind, Which then creates positive people." --- Copyright © 2001 Matt Day April 18, 2001 This is a thank you that is well deserved. Last year when I started high school, I was extremely nervous about what was to come and who I would meet. I had no clue about anything. I received my schedule and noticed that I had Mrs. Neal for History. Well all my friends had Mr. Foulk and I was kind of upset about that. We tried to get it changed but the classes were already full so I was stuck all by myself. Well I know now that there was a reason why I was put in her class. I am in her class again for Sophomore History and am very thankful. She has always been there for me. Over the past two years, she has seen my good side and my bad side and loved me in both stages. I think that she deserves a lot more credit than she receives. She really cares about her students and tries her hardest to let everyone have a chance to succeed. I know that she has helped me figure out a lot of things and has helped me through many problems and hard times. Thank you Mrs. Neal for being the person that I needed you to be. --- Copyright © 2001 Abi Brock April 16, 2001 If you are a teacher and you are reading this, you are a role model. Believe it or not, there is a student out there watching your every mood; this student thinks the world of you. You as a teacher, to be a great one, should look for that student. Talk to them, smile at them, at least wave. Let them know they are recognized and cared for. As a student who deeply admires a teacher, who barely recognizes me, I can tell you it's one of the worst feelings in the world! Please reach out to your students. They need you more than they or you may think! --- Wishing to remain anonymous, Age 17 April 13, 2001 " It is when one believes one has learned all there is to learn, and knows all there is to know, and believes others are usually in error, it is then that nothing is learned, and little is known. Text is easy to memorize, but to grasp the essence takes a willingness to learn and a lifetime to earn." --- Copyright © 2001 Nina Blaise-Marie April 11, 2001 " Spring is here, which means that Graduation will be creeping up on me in no time. The experience is bitter-sweet for me. So many people I care about I have to leave, but a brand new world is ahead of me. The only quote that can show me that change is a good thing: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end ". So to all the teachers out there who care, thanks!" --- Kates --- Age 18 --- New Jersey April 9, 2001 " A child's home life may not be good quality and although a teacher cannot save every child, he/she can do everything possible to improve that child's life. In every classroom there will be a child I will want to save. If there were to ever come a day when I stopped feeling the need to save children, then that is the day I would know I shouldn't be teaching. A teacher should always feel that innate reaction to help in every way possible to improve a child's life in any way. That is what being a teacher is all about." --- Copyright © 2001 Megan Oliver April 6, 2001 " If I gave you a clean sheet, what would you write? Would your words be long and graceful or short and sweet? Would it be poetry, or just plain English? If you have something to say, say it now. For soon, and always too soon, my sheet will be filled and this chapter will end as soon as the next will begin; with a clean sheet, new authors and a million possibilities." --- Bauer Hockey --- Submitted by Nathan Heerrington --- Ontario, Canada April 4, 2001 " We learn history, not because it bores the heck out of us, But so we don't repeat it." --- E.F. --- Submitted by J.W., Age 16 --- Maryland April 2, 2001 " At this moment in time, our technology surpasses our humanity. But when I look at me and you, I now believe that our humanity Will one day definitely surpass our technology." --- Albert Einstein --- Submitted by Sizwe Dlengezele --- South Africa March 30, 2001 I never realized how much my genetics teacher, Mrs. Cooke, actually cared about me until she asked me why I was so depressed. Now, none of my other teachers seemed to care so this caught me off guard. She told me that if I ever need to talk to her about anything at all, she'd always be there for me. It's very comforting to know that she actually does truly care about me and wants to help me get through some really tough times. Thank you Mrs. Cooke. --- Amy S., Age 17 --- New Jersey March 28, 2001 " Every child's life is like a piece of paper On which every person leaves a mark." --- Chinese Proverb --- Submitted by Holly Penner --- Manitoba, Canada March 26, 2001 " I will do better tomorrow from what I have learned today." --- Copyright © 2001 Kate Ballard March 23, 2001 " The only thing in life that is achieved without effort is failure." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Brian DD., Age 17 --- Ohio March 21, 2001 When I was in 8th grade I met the most inspiring person in the world, and she was my p.e./health teacher. At that time in my life I was in a mess with my family because I was trying to change which parent I lived with. One day this teacher saw that I was upset, and she asked me what was wrong. Immediately I could tell that she was someone who I could trust and confide in so I spilled out everything that I had on my mind. I have never heard better advice from anyone. We became closer and over the time I have known her, she has taught me more than anyone ever could by just following a lesson plan. She taught me to stand up for what I believed in, and to never let something bother me that I cannot control. She taught me to never give up and to always look for the good in people no matter how much easier it might be to bring out the bad. Along with these things, she has taught me so much more and inspired me in so many ways. She is not my teacher anymore, but I still keep in touch with her often, and I am always sure to tell her just how much she means to me. My family knows that she has gone way out of her way to help, and I thank God that I have her in my life. She is my angel and one day I plan to follow in her footsteps and become a wonderful teacher that has the gift to touch a child's life, and make a difference doing it. --- Copyright © 2001 Heather Gillespie March 19, 2001 " The more one learns, the more they realize they do not know." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Z.J. ---- California March 16, 2001 " Miracles are natural; when they do not occur, Something has gone wrong." --- Helen Schulman --- Submitted by Erin Brrown --- Florida March 14, 2001 " Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." --- William Shakespeare --- Submitted by L..F., Age 16 --- Australia March 12, 2001 " Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.A., AAge 18 --- Washington March 9, 2001 Back in October 1996, my four year old daughter, Courtney, was asked, "What makes people different?". She responded: "People are not so different. They are like a box of crayons. On the outside a different blue, pink or green, but on the inside people are all just crayons." --- Copyright © 1996 Courtney McNeil --- Suubmitted by Jeannie McNeil --- New York ( I thought that this was a really profound statement and one uttered with total sincerity. I am proud of my daughter, now eight, for her total acceptance and love for diversity. ) March 7, 2001 " The more you prepare outside class, the less you perspire in class. The less you perspire in class, the more you inspire the class." --- Ho Boon Tiong --- Submitted by Kenyon KKor --- Singapore March 5, 2001 " Keep smiling and don't be too hard on yourself!" --- Cindy Iffland --- Submitted by Bonnie AA., Age 16 --- Connecticut March 2, 2001 " If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --- Albert Einstein February 28, 2001 " Child use your head and push forward And you will overcome and be successful." --- Mrs. Roux --- Submitted by Bre C., Age 15 --- Texas ( This was told to me by a very special teacher that changed my life for the better. Whenever I feel down and feel like I can't go anymore, I take a look at this quote and read it over and over and say, "You can do this. Yep... you can do this." ) February 26, 2001 " Take time to pay for your education while you're young, Or pay for not having it the rest of your life." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mike MccMichael --- Missouri February 23, 2001 " If sometimes memories get confused with dreams, Well, that's as it should be. Because every kid deserves to be a hero. Every kid already is." --- From The Wonder Years --- Submitted by Amanda C., Age 16 --- Oklahoma February 21, 2001 " Who dares to teach, must never cease to learn." --- John Cotton Dana --- Submitted by Tammyy Miller --- Massachusetts February 19, 2001 " If you don't see the wisdom in others, it is you that is a fool." --- Mr. Kemmer --- Submitted by T.B., Age 117 --- Oregon February 16, 2001 " If you ever fell stranded I promise you, you aren't. I will be there for you. All the other people that do feel stranded shall come together and prosper from one another." --- L.N., Age 15 --- California February 14, 2001 " There is no limit to what your heart considers art." --- Copyright © 2000 Georgia Peschel ( I teach children and am sad when I hear that they are told their art is not correct or good enough. Who are we to say? ) February 12, 2001 " If you don't prepare, you repair." --- Copyright © 2000 Rick Chromey (Preparation of the lesson, the student and your life is the secret to GREAT teaching! This is one of my own "quotes" I share in teaching "teachers." ) February 9, 2001 " The smallest action a teacher makes toward her students can mean so much to them. Last week I witnessed one example of this. A teacher was walking in the hall past our classroom and a girl in the front called out her name. The teacher stopped, looked in, smiled and waved to the girl. The expression on that girls face after that was amazing. She tried not to show it but she blushed and the smile wouldn't fade for awhile. Then she finally said, " Mrs. R is so nice..." It may mean nothing to some people but to most people, a smile, a wave, a hello and goodbye from a teacher can mean more then anything to a student no matter what they may say." --- Wishing to remain anonymous, Age 18 ---- New Jersey February 7, 2001 Teacher's Prayer I want to teach my students How to live this life on earth To face its struggles and its strife And improve their worth Not just the lesson in a book Or how the rivers flow But how to choose the proper path Wherever they may go To understand eternal truth And know the right from wrong And gather all the beauty Of a Flower and a song For if I help the world to grow In wisdom and grace Then I shall feel that I have won And I have filled my place And so I ask your guidance, God That I may do my part For character and confidence And happiness of heart --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Brad Teeske --- Alberta, Canada February 5, 2001 " Teaching is the choicest of professions because everybody who is anybody was taught how to be somebody by a teacher." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Steven Barth --- Maryland February 2, 2001 " In the heart of every teacher are the memories of a child." --- The Faculty Faerie Godmother of Libertyy Middle School --- Submitted by Judy Faust --- Virginia January 31, 2001 " The extreme always makes an impression." --- Jeff Hardy --- Submitted by G.K., Age 118 --- Ontario, Canada January 29, 2001 " Instead of trying to reach your students by always making them act more like adults, approach your day with the spirit of a child and your classroom will become your playground." --- Copyright © 2001 Marsha Bass ( We often forget what it was like to be children and high school students, though quite large on the outside, are still just children. Remember to laugh, play fair, share, respect other's things, and how painful little matters can hurt to children. Soon you will make a connection that will make it much easier for you to then guide them gently into adulthood. ) January 26, 2001 " I could say NO while waiting for the perfect opportunity, But I'd rather say YES to a wonderful learning experience." --- Copyright © 1992 Deb Brauneller January 24, 2001 A Teacher's Reflections Marian Wright Edelman's prayers and reflections are an inspiration to me both personally and professionally. She relays a clear understanding of children's needs as the grow toward adulthood. The picture she paints of her childhood makes me realize what is lacking for many of the children of our country. It renews my awareness of the needs of the students in my classroom and my responsibility as a teacher and a member of a community. One passage that moved me was where Marian writes, "When Christ told His disciples to let the little children 'come unto me". He did not say rich children or white children or smart children or non-disabled children. He said let the children come unto me. And so must we. These words ring in my ears and will inspire me to see each child as a child of God. I will love each one and educate each one to the best of my ability. I will not see any student as a problem, but as a gift (and possibly a challenge), and my love for children and my mission as a teacher will enable me to be hard-working, dedicated, and committed to our children. I will try to inspire, motivate, and educate parents of my students and other adults to see their responsibilities to our children. It is important that we see all children as OUR children and realize that we must invest ourselves in making our community a safe and loving place for our children to grow up. I am a teacher because I love children and want to invest time and effort into making our community child-centered. I want to help other adults realize the special gift that children are and to realize their responsibilities to all children in our community. My life has been affected by the children I teach each time I look in a student's eyes and realize that what I do that day determines how that child's day will go. I have seen directly how my mood and attitude affects an entire classroom of children. I have seen how my hard work and creative lesson planning inspires and motivates children to learn. Teaching has taught me how my actions directly affect the lives of others. Motherhood has reinforced this one hundred times over. Now as I look into the eyes of each of my students I see my child, and the way I treat each student is the way I would want my own child to be treated. I realize that each child in my room is somebody's baby boy or girl. Teaching has brought me a peace and fulfillment in my life that is so strong that if I were to die tomorrow I feel that my life has meant something--that I have touched the lives of others and was appreciated by parents and students. I feel I have followed a calling of the Lord, and I honored His commands to the best of my ability. I look forward to work, and I enjoy my life so much. My job is not just a job. There is so much more than money. At the end of the day, my efforts have meant something significant. I hope to always better myself to become a leader and role model who is respected as an educator who can help lead others to dedicating themselves to children. --- Tavia Schoen --- Submitted by Kate Thommas --- Michigan January 22, 2001 " Those who can, TEACH. Those who can't, go into some less significant line of work." --- Found on a coffee mug --- Submitted by John Dauphinee --- Massachusetts January 19, 2001 " They always say that time changes things, But you actually have to change them yourself." --- Andy Warhol --- Submitted by Melissa M.. --- Pennsylvania January 17, 2001 " Failure is not an option; Just a nagging possibility that helps me stay focused." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.C. ---- Florida January 15, 2001 " There are things known, there are things Unknown. And in between are the doors." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pablo DDevis --- Cundinamarca, Colombia January 12, 2001 " Just remember, whenever you think life sucks, it doesn't suck forever." --- Kate B., Age 18 --- New Jersey (This was told to me by my favorite teacher today and it's completely true! Just when you think that nothing can ever be good again and that you have nothing going for you, remember that feeling does not last forever and in time, things will get better.) January 10, 2001 " The best treasures in life are the ones deep in your heart." --- Copyright © 2000 Paula Jo Fitzsimmons January 8, 2001 " There is no finish line." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Adam D.., Age 15 --- Illinois January 5, 2001 Who is a Teacher? Someone who listens closely to what we are asking Someone who answers with kindness and knowledge Someone who prepares us for today and tomorrow Someone who loves every one of us in different ways Someone who keeps learning everyday Thank God, It's someone like you --- Copyright © 2000 Jeff Frail January 3, 2001 " When your favorite teacher looks you straight in the eye for the first time, the moment seems to go by too soon. When you receive their first smile, a fiery warmth fills your heart. When they hug you for the first time, life stands still for that brief period. And when your favorite teacher tells you they love you, your heart breaks because it is unable to hold in the joy flowing through your soul. So look back into their eyes, smile at them and tell them how much they mean to you. Hold their hand and thank them for always seeing the beauty in you. And when you hug them, whisper 'I love you, too' in their ear." --- Copyright © 2000 Rhae Lindsey December 29, 2000 " It is always amazing what a small part of life is taken up by meaningful moments. Most of them, they are over before they start, although, they cast a bright light on the future and make the person who originated them unforgettable." --- The King from the movie Anna and the Kiing --- Submitted by Rhett Larsen --- Colorado December 27, 2000 This is a poem for students to read and think about when they do not take responsibility for the choices they make. Choices I make my own choices everyday. No one else controls what I do or say. Good choices - bad choices - it's up to me. I choose to decide what my life will be. When my choices are wrong, when things go bad, I can yell, get angry, hit, or be sad. I can blame my neighbors or my brother, Or point at myself, not someone other. I can make excuses; say you're not fair. I cannot tell the truth; say I don't care. Or I can do the right thing; just be nice. Learn so I won't make the same mistake twice. I make my own choices every day. I know I control what I do and say. I will make good choices and you will see, For now I'll take responsibility. --- Copyright © 1998 Robert McDaniel December 22, 2000 " Children are the reflection of their teacher. Everybody can see your reflection." --- Copyright © 2000 Keri Zimmerman December 20, 2000 " Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do Are in harmony." --- Mahatma Gandhi --- Submitted by Molly CCallaghan --- Pennsylvania December 18, 2000 Two Teachers I talked with two teachers just the other day, It sure was interesting to hear what they had to say. One was complaining about all the paperwork that she had done. The other was excited about how well the school year had begun. One told of a new student, who enrolled in her class that day, And how he couldn't read on level or his letters he couldn't say. The other was so concerned about the child, who couldn't count past eight, And wondered what she could do to reach and motivate. One belittled the poorly dressed student, who was in her room, Saying she wouldn't pay attention and fell asleep that afternoon. The other told me of a child, whose parents had split apart, And how much it had affected her learning from the very start. One told me of the little boy, who constantly broke the rules, And how he was my problem now, since I was principal of the school. The other asked me for some help with a defiant student, too. She wanted to get the parents involved, in hopes that she'd improve. One said she didn't have the time for all that in-service stuff. She had a master's in education and that was quite enough. The other told me of an article in a journal she read last night, And what recent research said about teaching to left brain and right. One was angry with the number of dittos she always had to run. She considered learning work, there's never time for fun. The other invited me to her room to watch the students who Were thinking and creating, and problem solving, too. One was bragging that the whole textbook she had already taught, Although it didn't seem to matter if the students learned or not. The other told of experiments and new methods she did try, And not just asking who, when, and where, but what if and why? I wish I had the answers for the differences between these two, For both are so important to the educating we do. I guess one feels that teaching is a job and nothing more, While the other loves the challenges that always find her door. I've known both kinds of teachers, and I'm sure that you have, too. Please stop and think a moment... Which one of these are you? --- Copyright © 1988 Robert McDaniel December 15, 2000 I always knew that my teachers cared, but what happened today made that even more obvious. I wasn't feeling too well in my last period, Journalism class, and I had my head down. My teacher noticed this and throughout the class she kept coming over to check on me and even brought me a cup of water. It was such a small effort but it really meant a lot to me. At the end of the day, my teacher wouldn't let me drive home. She had me sit with her in her classroom until I felt better. I told her what was bothering me and she told me stories and positive things about myself. When I finally felt better, she walked me to the lot and I really saw how worried she was about me. She kept telling me to drive carefully and hesitated even letting me leave yet. Just that one hour that I spent with her meant so much to me. She was more then just a teacher, she truly cared about me and wanted to make sure I was 100% okay to go home. She is an amazing teacher and I really look up to her. I hope someday I can be as wonderful a teacher as she is! --- K.B., Age 17 --- New Jersey Thanks to all of my HS teachers this year and last. I wouldn't be as happy as I am, if it hadn't been for you! December 13, 2000 A mother once asked Gandhi to get her son to stop eating sugar. Gandhi told the child, "Come back in two weeks." Two weeks later the mother brought the child before Gandhi. Gandhi said to the boy, "Stop eating sugar". Puzzled the woman replied, "Thank you, but I must ask you why didn't you tell him that two weeks ago. Gandhi replied," Two weeks ago I was eating sugar." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by A.P. --- California December 11, 2000 " Never doubt yourself and say that you can't; If you thought that you could, Then there's a chance that you can." --- Copyright © 1999 Phaedra Anderson December 8, 2000 " Teaching kids to count is fine, But teaching them what counts is best." --- Bob Talbert December 6, 2000 " The more I teach, the more I learn!" --- Copyright © 1995 John C. Gibson December 4, 2000 " Don't be scared.....be prepared!" --- Melony Jones --- Submitted by L.L., Agee 14 --- Georgia December 1, 2000 " Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave." --- Prophet Muhammed --- Submitted by Z. Paatel --- NW, South Africa November 29, 2000 A Few Kind Words You know the quote, "No matter where you go or who you become, never forget those who helped us get there." Well this quote ties up with me and I'm sure a lot of other people too. Have you ever heard, "People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime"? Well, there's this teacher that I know, love, and care about. I'm not going to say teacher because it doesn't fit right; a friend. I mean, a friend doesn't fit right either. I guess the best way to describe her is an Angel sent by God. When I met her, my seventh grade year, it wasn't during my down point in life. Actually my life was going pretty smooth for me. Then a year passed and my teenage years just totally sank, but I didn't want to believe it. My grades were bad, my attitude toward life was bad, and I was disrespectful to teachers. I couldn't see that I was falling, but she could. She knew something was wrong, that I just wasn't myself. I remember crying to her, telling her my life stunk and how I just wanted to die. She told me that I shouldn't say that and no matter how hard life got she would always be there for me. She told me she loved me. She told me how much she cared. After we talked, things went up hill for a while, but then things got worst. I disrespected her, got into trouble at school and at home. I would tell her that I was going to change and do better. Well I did for at least a week and just went back to being bad. I told her this two or three more times and it just ended up in the same results. I let her down and that was the worst kind of pain I have experienced. She never waved at me in the halls or talked to me anymore. I knew why and I wanted to take it back so bad but I knew I couldn't. I was depressed and angry with myself until the sixteenth of February. Mom and I had a long talk with my teacher, or should I say they had a long talk with me. Actually my mom stayed out of it and let her do the talking, which I thought was a bad idea because I knew what was coming. She yelled and yelled at me. I didn't want to listen to her because I knew she was right. She said, "Bre, what does this 'L' stand for that I'm showing you?" I didn't answer. She kept asking and demanding an answer, but I never told her because again I knew she was right. Finally she said, "Bre you know what it means. You just don't want to see it. 'L' stands for Loser! That's exactly what you're showing me. You're showing me that big 'L' instead of what should be on there, the 'W'." You know? At that time I hated her more than ever. I couldn't believe that someone I loved and cared so much about would cut me down right in front of my eyes. It hurt to hear that come out of her mouth. My heart totally sunk. I remember thinking, "Bre, she isn't telling you this for you to hate her. She's telling you this because she wants you to see what you are doing to yourself." I kept fighting my mind. I didn't want to admit I was a loser. I didn't want to be a loser in her eyes, but I had to accept the fact that she was right. I was heading in the wrong direction. She opened my eyes and made me see what I was doing to myself. I never told her that I loved her for cutting me down, telling me I was a loser, and most of all making me see. I now see the reason she was brought into my life. She came to provide me with guidance and support, to aid me physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I now have many opportunities to tell her I love her and appreciate what she did for me that night. I want her to know, whoever or whatever I become, she was my biggest inspiration. --- Copyright © 2000 Bre Coffey November 27, 2000 " We ask for strength And the Great Spirit gives us difficulties, Which makes us strong." --- Native American Prayer --- Submitted byy Russ Frost --- Ohio November 22, 2000 " You are never where you want to be, But always where you planned on being." --- Copyright © 2000 Brett Strothers November 20, 2000 I am a second year teacher, teaching at the high school from which I graduated. My perspective has come full circle, and though I have always held my former teachers in the highest of esteem, I now have a new found respect for them. I have noticed how easy it can be to become discouraged and wonder why we continue to do this almost impossible job. Why do we spend countless unpaid hours grading papers and sponsoring clubs and sports? I look to my high school years to express my reason. Although I was luckier than many children, my home life left a great deal to be desired. School was my escape and I purposefully became very involved in after school activities to take up my time. If it hadn't been for those teachers who spent their time as Cheerleading Coaches, Student Government Sponsors and Annual teachers, I don't think I would have turned out as successful as I am today. So, if you are a teacher who after a tiring day questions why, know that you do touch lives, and that is why I decided to join your ranks. --- Angela Howard --- Florida November 17, 2000 " I have the unlimited capacity to not know what can't be done." --- Dr. Larry Lezotte --- Submitted by Tereesa Werth --- New York November 15, 2000 As a teacher, I will forever be grateful to my student who never stops asking why. It may seem too much at times, but I know that I have been blessed by a student who keeps asking why. For every answer I give, he asks me why. It keeps me on my toes, ever truthful, ever creative. It has reinforced the life lesson that we should never be afraid to ask why and we should never, ever stop asking why. So to Tristan, thank you! I'm sure he would answer me with, "But why, Teacher?" --- M.B.S. --- Parañaque, Philippines November 13, 2000 " Let us covet the years of childhood; a time of make-believe and magic, tea parties and evening games of hide-and-go seek. Let classrooms be a sunny safe haven where every child is taught that all things are possible and to always believe in the beauty of their dreams." --- Copyright © 2000 Andrea Light November 10, 2000 " Teachers are the sunshine, Students are the flowers, Sunshine helps flowers grow." --- Copyright © 2000 Ranell November 8, 2000 " I never allow my schooling to get in the way of my education." --- Albert Einstein --- Submitted by A. Catth, Age 15 --- Massachusetts November 6, 2000 " Those who educate children are more to be honored than those who produce them; For these only gave them life, those the art of living well." --- Aristotle --- Submitted by Evette Smithh --- Kingston, Jamaica November 1, 2000 As I was sitting at my desk, desperately trying to finish up some paperwork before the end of the day, I had one student in my room making up some work. He was a very talkative child and I had told him to remain quiet and finish before the bell rang. About 5 minutes before the bell rang, he stopped working and said, "I sure do like coming in here." I teach Special Ed, so that made me curious as to why. I asked, "Why?" His response "You always listen to me." I said, "Well, today I couldn't because we both had work to do." He said, "Yea, I know, but if I didn't have make up work, you would have put yours away. That's why I like coming in here. You don't talk to me much but you listen good." At that moment all the paperwork could have gone up in flames. It was the best 5 minutes of my teaching experience that I'll never forget. --- Copyright © 2000 H. Hicks October 30, 2000 " No bird soars too high, If he soars with his own wings." --- William Blake --- Submitted by Garrett Beard --- Pennsylvania October 27, 2000 " When teaching the unlearned . . . He who teaches receives the greatest education." --- Copyright © 1988 Darrell W. Boswell October 25, 2000 " Most teachers are knowledgeable. Good teachers are intelligent. Great teachers are patient. Exceptional teachers are students themselves." --- Dale Dubin, M.D. --- Submitted by Jasonn Childers October 23, 2000 " Inspiration is the wind that fills your sails, And imagination is the star by which you navigate." --- Robert J. Simpson --- Submitted by A.C.., Age 10 --- Ohio October 20, 2000 " Be whatever you want to be, but always be yourself." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.B., AAge 15 --- Pennsylvania October 18, 2000 " If I stop learning today, I will be teaching badly tomorrow. The greatest teachers must pursue life-long learning." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lawren Yong Hon Chong --- Perak, Malaysia October 16, 2000 " Teachers teach. They educate; they give you the lessons that you learn everyday in the classroom. Most you think you can live without, but you leave with a lesson you will never forget." --- Copyright © 2000 Annie Kuckelman October 13, 2000 " My teacher is not merely my teacher. She is my teacher, second mother, And most importantly, my friend." --- S.S. --- Age 18 --- Maine October 11, 2000 " I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I didn't know." --- Mark Twain October 9, 2000 I would like to take this time to tell you about my favorite person in the entire world. Her name is Mrs. Stansbury and she was my English teacher in my Sophomore year of High School. I moved to NJ from NY that year and didn't know a soul. I was pretty depressed about moving and didn't make an attempt to like the new environment I was in. I was never very good in school either. But it was Mrs Stansbury who made me realize just how lucky I was to be where I was. She was one of the people who tried to learn about me and made me feel so important to the class. She was there whenever I needed advice or if I had a question. But she was also there to just talk and she always listened to what I had to say. Because of her, I am going to be a High School English Teacher someday. I've learned everything I need to know from her and she is person that I will never ever forget. When I have to graduate High School on June 19, 2001, I know I'll be shedding a lot of tears. I'll miss my friends and my school but most of all, I'll miss Mrs Stansbury because she has been my role model for the past year and I hope I can always stay in touch with her and pass on her inspiration through myself. --- Katy B., Age 17 --- New Jersey October 6, 2000 " Daring ideas are like chessmen moving forward; They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." --- Goethe --- Submitted by A.C., Age 10 ---- Ohio October 4, 2000 " Education should be fun and desirable; not an obligation." --- Copyright © 2000 Tanya Cox October 2, 2000 " This day has been given to me fresh and clean. I can use it or throw it away. I promise it shall be used, not lost. I will be superior in my thoughts, my deeds and actions. I will be a quality person today." --- Janna Tolleson's 4th grade class (1999)) --- Submitted by Janna Tolleson --- North CCarolina --- This was designed by my 4th grade classs as our mission statement September 29, 2000 " The children you teach are messages to a future that you will never see." --- Author Unknown September 27, 2000 " Teaching is the greatest form of optimism." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Liz, Agge 17 --- Singapore September 25, 2000 My niece Mackenzie is 6 years old. She is a kindergartner this year. On arriving home from school the first day her mom asked how the first day was. Mackenzie excitedly replied, "Mommy, we had so much fun, the teacher invited me back tomorrow. Can I go?" Hats off to the teacher that made her day especially memorable. --- Patty Lowe --- Indiana September 22, 2000 " I want to thank all my teachers: In a world of darkness you lighted the way. I know that I must travel my path alone, But thanks for sending me off." --- Chris C., Age 16 --- Alabama September 20, 2000 " Teachers: Parents send us their best. They are entrusting us to make their best-----BETTER!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by T.H. ---- Mississippi September 18, 2000 " Why do people think teachers are 'Monsters'? I really don't understand. Hasn't anyone noticed that if it wasn't for their first grade teacher they wouldn't know how to add or subtract, even read? Well I know this one teacher/coach that has touched my life in so many different places. She has taught me more than what I have learned in a whole 2 years at the Junior High. She has taught me so much both on and off the court. She was there to help and pushed me to succeed. There was a few times when I felt like ending my life and she could see the pain in my eyes. She came up to me and would say, "You're not the kind of person that would give up! Why? You have so much to live for Bre! Look I'm going to help you but you have to promise me that you won't do anything stupid. I'm not giving up and there is no way I'm letting you give up." You know what? My coach never gave up on me and I made it through that tough 8th grade year. She taught me to always keep going when you are going through hell and to never give up no matter what life throws at you. My best advice for teens, like me, when they are going through hell is to never give up, never give up faith and most importantly believe in yourself. Even when it seems like nobody believes in you, don't stop believing in yourself because that is the most important thing you need in life. Reach out to people even if you think you shouldn't. Have a little bit of faith and take another step even when it is dark and you don't know if what you are about to set foot on is air or ground because people like my coach will be there to catch you when you fall." --- Copyright © 2000 Bre Coffey September 15, 2000 " Teachers are more than heroes, For they have given their sacrifices. From their death, lives a student." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Julie Anne, Age 14 --- ---- Valenzuela, Philippines September 13, 2000 " Steal away to yourself Find inside you power to do it. It is not somewhere else, it is hidden, latent within you. The capacity is within you to do what you propose. If you can see it, you can be it." --- Copyright © 2000 Sipho Mnyakeni September 11, 2000 " What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." --- Joseph Addison September 6, 2000 Education: That which discloses to the wise And disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. --- Ambrose Bierce/Mark Twain --- Submittedd by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida September 1, 2000 " A teacher is the flame that lights the path of a child." --- Copyright © 2000 Karen Koonce August 30, 2000 " Teachers who educate children Deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth. For bare life is furnished by the one, The other ensures a good life." --- Aristotle --- Submitted by Claire Gavagghan --- Essex, United Kingdom August 28, 2000 " The aim of education should be to teach the child HOW to think, Not WHAT to think." --- John Dewey --- Submitted by Jennifer Huull --- Arkansas August 25, 2000 My favorite teacher was Miss Addleman, my first grade teacher. She was old as the hills when I had her. She'd been teaching almost 40 years and was one of the few left over from that pre WWII group who got teaching certificates with a high school diploma. What she didn't have in formal university training, she made up for in a world of experience. Like the other school marms of her period, she never married...devoting her whole life to her "calling." She read to us constantly, which I believe was, in part, one of the reasons I am a prolific reader. She also had a piano in her room which she played many times during the school day. We knew the joys of singing to learn in first grade. It was always an adventure in Miss Addleman's class. For us girls, she had a beautiful collection of dolls stored right in her room which we were allowed to play with if we were especially good. For the boys, there were tools, hammers, screwdriver, etc. and she allowed them to build simple boxes and things. I got the only school spanking I ever received during my school days from Miss Addleman for washing my hands in the maid's sink. She rapped my hands three times with a ruler. I was heartbroken, not because I had my hands spanked, but because I had let Miss Addleman down. My mother was also a first grade teacher at the school I attended. Because I got to school early, Miss Addleman gave me piano lessons. To this day, I still have my little red music book with gold stars on pieces I played especially well. I moved away from Mobile, Alabama after first grade and I never saw Miss Addleman again. I'm sure she died years ago. However, I often think of her, especially when I hear a magical song on the piano or read a lively children's book. --- Copyright © 1999 Cynthia Hughes Lynch August 23, 2000 " Teachers are the lamps which guide you through the night, The shining stars that twinkle whenever you outshine them, A hand that leads you towards the future, An excellent mentor who never gives up on you And a warm friend that radiates with love." --- Copyright © 2000 Andrea Jie August 21, 2000 " An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, Or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know And what you don't." --- Anatole France August 18, 2000 " There are no greater lessons than the ones taught by your students." --- Copyright © 1995 E.Park August 16, 2000 " While I too want my children to be life-long learners, I do not want it to take a lifetime To learn what they normally would in 12 or 13 years." --- Copyright © 1997 Gloria Hoffman August 14, 2000 " Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson August 11, 2000 " To teach is to learn, again. People don't care how much you know, Until they know how much you care. Remember this when dealing with your students, Especially with the challenging one's." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by R. Laveergne --- Ontario, Canada August 9, 2000 " It's not what you can learn, but it's what you can teach yourself." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ever R.., Age 16 --- Florida August 7, 2000 " I guess you can say most people look at a teacher as just some annoying person who is just there to give you homework and make a bad day worse. But for me it's a totally different story. In my 7th grade year, things weren't exactly great. I was a very depressed 12 year old that I guess felt pretty lost. My parents didn't pick me up after school very frequently, so I would just hang around, until one day when I met this teacher, Miss Namrehs. After a few weeks of hanging around in her classroom, I felt like I could tell her almost anything, because I pretty much didn't have anyone else to talk to. Best of all she was always willing to listen. Before I met Miss Namrehs, yes I did do some stupid things to myself and had a very tough time at home. When I talked to her, things just seemed a lot easier and she always showed concern. I thank her so much for that, because I really and truly don't know what I would've have done without that kind hearted teacher who was always there letting me in her classroom after school to talk about any problem I had. THANK YOU Miss Namrehs!" --- B.M., Age 12 --- New Jersey August 4, 2000 " Read not to contradict and confute, Nor to believe and take for granted... But to weigh and consider." --- Francis Bacon August 2, 2000 " A high school diploma is an absolute minimum, Or minimum wage will be your absolute maximum." --- Copyright © 1998 Lawrence L. Josephs July 31, 2000 " Education: What remains after you have forgotten all that you have been taught." --- Lord Halifax --- Submitted by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida July 28, 2000 I am a Special Education Teacher and I had the pleasure of having an autistic child in my classroom this year. Patric was a fifth grader and this June, when he was promoted to the sixth grade, he surprised me with a gift which he was eager for me to open. After opening the present and seeing that it was a beautiful table clock, Patric quickly asked if I knew why he had gotten me a clock. I replied that I didn't and to that he most lovingly answered: "Because every time you look at the clock you'll know I love you all the time." --- Gabriela Gallardo --- California July 26, 2000 " Let Each Of Us Aspire To Inspire, Before We Expire." --- Copyright © 1997 Albert L. Clarke Jr. July 24, 2000 " Learning the hard way is indeed a good teacher, But learning from the experience of others Is less expensive and less painful." --- Copyright © 1992 Jim Lord July 21, 2000 " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --- Submitted by Patricia Munang --- Sarawaak, Malaysia July 19, 2000 " No printed page, No spoken plea, May teach young hearts, What men should be. Not all the books, On all the shelves, But what the teachers are themselves." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jon H. --- South Carolina July 17, 2000 " EVERYONE plays, EVERYONE gets a turn, EVERYONE tries. We are not here to develop just the talented, BUT EVERYONE. We are not the minor league for athletics. In physical education, EVERYONE WINS." --- Copyright © 1980 Lisa Dorato July 14, 2000 " Teachers have a great future in minds." --- Author Unknown July 12, 2000 " We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, Yet forget that he is someone today." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by L.C. ---- Texas July 10, 2000 " I am graduating from high school. I am overwhelmed with emotions. This year has been so amazing. I recently was honored with the Student Leadership Award, just for being me! My teachers have given me faith in myself. As I prepare myself for graduation, I still want to hold on to my teachers. There is just so much more I want them to teach me. Things will never be the same after June 13th. Thank you to my yearbook teacher, Mrs. Tavenner. You saw a light in me and announced it to the world. In my yearbook you wrote that I was your inspiration, and that I gave you a new outlook on life. You taught me that someone is always watching the good in people. Thank you to my English teacher, Ms. Price. Since day one you encouraged me to write what matters. You listened to me and were a shoulder to cry on when life got crazy. You taught me that it's ok for a student to love a teacher, and vice versa. Thank you to one of the principals, Mr. Neely. I'm so grateful that there is someone like you at the top. You helped me see that the administration may not always be right, but they're trying. I love you guys! You've taught me more this year than what I've learned my whole life. Thanks for making my senior year so memorable. I'll never forget you!" --- Katy B., Age 17 --- California July 7, 2000 " Teachers are precious people who cause joyful happenings In the hearts of children." --- Author Unknown July 5, 2000 " Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed in music, and in that is it's power and significance." --- Leo Tolstoy --- Submitted by Madeline KKoh Xin Ai --- Singapore July 3, 2000 " If history were taught in the form of stories, It would never be forgotten." --- Rudyard Kipling June 30, 2000 " I will never let my schooling get in the way of my education." --- Mark Twain --- Submitted by M. VanClevee --- Kentucky June 28, 2000 " Children are the messages we will send to a time we will never see." --- Neil Postman --- Submitted by S. Maderaa --- California June 26, 2000 " Some of us learn by reading, by writing, and by doing, But as a teacher I learn more from children Than what I could ever learn from a text book or a manual on teaching." --- Copyright © 2000 Kelly Wilson June 23, 2000 " If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, He will become what he ought to be and could be." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by S. Grahham --- Nova Scotia, Canada June 21, 2000 " Blessed are those who teach." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Nadine Ivvy --- Alabama June 19, 2000 " Concentration is the best key to open the treasure house of knowledge!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pramod Pillai --- Gujarath, India June 16, 2000 " Education is not received. It is achieved." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Stacey Leee June 14, 2000 " If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education." --- Thomas Jefferson June 12, 2000 " Many Teach, Few Inspire." --- Author Unknown June 7, 2000 " Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." --- Author Unknown June 5, 2000 " To make someone smart, you can't make them know the answers, But you have to teach them to ask the right questions." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Diana PP., Age 14 --- Virginia June 2, 2000 " The distance from failure to success Is never been longer than the bridge of hope." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Allen GGuinto --- Pampanga, Philippines May 31, 2000 " You can't take someone to knowledge and make them think." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jewel Diaamond Taylor --- California May 29, 2000 " Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." --- Helen Keller May 26, 2000 " Teachers open the door, but the students enter by themselves." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida May 24, 2000 " Thinking is the hardest work we do, Which is why so few people ever do it." --- Copyright © 2000 Ephraim Makwatse --- SSouth Africa May 22, 2000 " Change does not necessarily assure progress, But progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, For education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." --- Henry Steele Commager --- Submitted by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida May 19, 2000 " I feel that education will give me knowledge, But experience will give me wisdom." --- Copyright © 2000 Jill Schaffer --- Tennnessee May 17, 2000 " We are here to learn, not to be right!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kayla VV., Age 11 --- Washington May 15, 2000 " We can't solve problems By using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." --- Albert Einstein May 12, 2000 " The business of teaching is carried forward...because some individuals of extraordinary vitality and strength of personality engage in it and the fire that helps to guide them kindles the spirits of the young people whose lives they touch." --- Woodrow Wilson May 10, 2000 " The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books; A mysterious order it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." --- Albert Einstein --- Sent in by Brent Laatam --- Ontario, Canada May 8, 2000 " A remarkable gift, creativity. No other aspect of the human psyche is as powerful. It can exist unused for many years and then, with the right encouragement, creativity can be expressed, improving our lives and the lives of everyone around us." --- C. Diane Ealy --- Sent in by Brian McKaay -- Manitoba, Canada May 5, 2000 " You can't rewrite yesterday's news, But you can influence what you read tomorrow morning." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Kristen HHogan --- Canada May 1, 2000 " The philosophy of the school room in one generation Will be the philosophy of government in the next." --- Abraham Lincoln --- Sent in by Lloyd Frrancis April 28, 2000 " Thought: an idea in transition." --- Pythagoras April 26, 2000 " If the only tool you have is a hammer, You tend to see every problem as a nail." --- Abraham Maslow April 24, 2000 " If you have always done it that way, It is probably wrong." --- Charles Kettering April 21, 2000 " I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I didn't know." --- Mark Twain April 19, 2000 " My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, And behold, all things are changed." --- Anne Sullivan April 17, 2000 " He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning." --- Danish Proverb --- Sent in by Chen Fawnn Meng --- Malaysia April 14, 2000 " If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice; If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees; If your plan is for 100 years, educate children." --- Confucius --- Sent in by Janet McClain --- Iowa April 12, 2000 Whose Child Is This? "Whose child is this?" I asked one day Seeing a little one out at play "Mine", said the parent with a tender smile "Mine to keep a little while To bathe his hands and comb his hair To tell him what he is to wear To prepare him that he may always be good And each day do the things he should" "Whose child is this?" I asked again As the door opened and someone came in "Mine", said the teacher with the same tender smile "Mine, to keep just for a little while To teach him how to be gentle and kind To train and direct his dear little mind To help him live by every rule And get the best he can from school" "Whose child is this?" I ask once more Just as the little one entered the door "Ours" said the parent and the teacher as they smiled And each took the hand of the little child "Ours to love and train together Ours this blessed task forever." --- Author Unknown April 10, 2000 " When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come." --- Chinese Proverb --- Sent in by Gaye Fulllerton April 7, 2000 " To know how to suggest is the art of teaching." --- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-81) --- Sentt in by Sharon Ogden --- Kentucky April 3, 2000 " Parents, keep teaching your children the lessons of life. As soon as you give up, and think your words have fallen on deaf ears, That's when you have given the ills of society your child and your victory." --- Copyright 2000 Ty Howard --- Maryland March 31, 2000 " One test of the correctness of educational procedure Is the happiness of the child." --- Maria Montessori March 29, 2000 " Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them." --- George Orwell March 27, 2000 " Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." --- Sir William Haley --- Sent in by Jenniffer Yontz --- Florida March 24, 2000 Why God Created Teachers When God created teachers, He gave us special friends To help us understand His world And truly comprehend The beauty and the wonder Of everything we see, And become a better person With each discovery. When God created teachers, He gave us special guides To show us ways in which to grow So we can all decide How to live and how to do What's right instead of wrong, To lead us so that we can lead And learn how to be strong. Why God created teachers, In His wisdom and His grace, Was to help us learn to make our world A better, wiser place. --- Author Unknown March 22, 2000 " I can teach you what I know, but I can't learn it for you." --- Buggy --- Sent in by Vincent --- Italy March 20, 2000 " I touch the future. I teach." --- Christa McAuliffe March 17, 2000 " Inside every great teacher, There is an even greater one waiting to come out." --- Author Unknown March 15, 2000 " Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." --- Malcolm X --- Sent in by Jennifer Yontzz --- Florida March 13, 2000 " Act as if what you do makes a difference, because it does." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Mike Chammbless --- Oregon March 10, 2000 " I cannot teach you; only help you to explore yourself." --- Bruce Lee --- Sent in by Tyson Spanish --- Ontario, Canada March 6, 2000 " The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." --- Winston Churchill March 3, 2000 " What you do today, reflects your tomorrow." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Pam Jordaan --- Ohio March 1, 2000 " To think is to differ." --- Clarence Darrow February 28, 2000 " It's not who you are that holds you back, It's who you think you're not." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida February 25, 2000 " There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you." --- Elie(zer) Wiesel (b. 1928) --- Romaniann-born writer, lecturer, survivor Nazi camps --- Sent in by Sharon Ogden --- Kentucky February 23, 2000 " People don't care how much you know, Until they know how much you care!" --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Mike Chammbless --- Oregon February 21, 2000 " We should all become advocates of Building Children, NOT Jails. Practice opening the door of opportunity to a child's imagination And watch the prisons begin to starve from their non-show appearances." --- Copyright © 2000 --- Ty Howard --- Maryyland February 18, 2000 " Who so neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead to the future." --- Euripides February 16, 2000 " Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." --- Henry Ford February 14, 2000 " Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." --- Albert Einstein February 11, 2000 " the children learning and growing in the warmth of our thoughts shall give what they are given" --- Copyright © 1982 E.Thomas Michlich --- Pennsylvania February 9, 2000 " To all the teachers throughout this land, please take a bow each time you stand. Though sometimes your efforts and sacrifice may appear to be an endless win. Today, stop… stand… and think... of that one student where your efforts sunk in. We applaud you." --- Copyright © 2000 --- Ty Howard --- Maryyland February 7, 2000 " An apple lasts a short time in the hands of a teacher. A bit of wisdom lasts a lifetime in the mind of a child." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Laura-Griies Elpers --- Indiana February 4, 2000 " The only time you should ever use the word 'quit' Is when the word 'never' precedes it!" --- Copyright © 1999 Brian G. Jett February 2, 2000 Teaching Uniqueness " Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? You should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been a child like you. And look at your body-what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may be a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel." --- Pablo Casals January 31, 2000 " I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." --- Socrates January 28, 2000 " Education is a weapon whose effect depends on Who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." --- Joseph Stalin --- Sent in by Jennifer YYontz --- Florida January 26, 2000 " The highest result of education is tolerance." --- Helen Keller January 24, 2000 " The moment you stop learning, you stop leading." --- Rick Warren --- Sent in by Jennifer Yonntz --- Florida January 21, 2000 " Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson afterwards." --- Vernon Law --- Sent in by Stephanie, Agge 14 --- New York January 19, 2000 " Most people are mirrors, Reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; Few are windows, Bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." --- Sydney J. Harris --- Sent in by Jennifeer Yontz --- Florida January 17, 2000 " We teach best that which we most need to learn." --- Richard Bach --- Sent in by Fred Leonarrd January 14, 2000 " The object of teaching a child Is to enable them to get along without their teacher." --- Elbert Hubbard January 12, 2000 " He who opens a school door, closes a prison." --- Victor Hugo January 10, 2000 " Education is what survives When what has been learned has been forgotten." --- B. F. Skinner--- Sent in Anonymously January 7, 2000 " It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn." --- John Bradshaw --- Sent in Anonymously January 5, 2000 " Teaching is a rigorous act of faith." --- Susan Ohanian --- Sent in by Nora Magnuus --- Singapore January 3, 2000 " The highest rated school of learning I have found is free to attend, accepts everyone, has no age limit, and it's main entrance qualifications are two; common sense and an open mind. It is the school of Life." --- Copyright © 1999 Mary Blu --- New York December 29, 1999 " The greater the island of knowledge, The longer the shoreline of wonder." --- Source Unknown --- Sent in by Terésa Meeyer --- Perth, Western Australia December 27, 1999 " Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." --- Pablo Picasso --- Concitta Cavin, 19 ---- Illinois December 24, 1999 Teacher's Serenity Prayer God grant me wisdom, creativity, and love. With wisdom, I may look to the future and see the effect that my teaching will have on these children, and thus adapt my methods to fit the needs of each one. With creativity, I can prepare new and interesting projects that can challenge my students and expand their minds to set higher goals and dream loftier dreams. With love, I can praise my students for jobs well done and encourage them to get up and go on when they fail, Lord reveal yourself through me. Amen --- Author Unknown December 22, 1999 " The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition Of continually asking questions." --- Bishop Mandell Creighton --- Sent in byy Jennifer Y., Age 19 --- Florida December 20, 1999 " Teaching is the royal road to learning." --- Jessamyn West --- Sent in by Nora Magnuus --- Singapore December 17, 1999 " I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child." --- Anna Quindlen --- Sent in by Robert McLLain --- Texas December 15, 1999 " The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves Throughout their lives." --- Robert Maynard Hutchins --- Sent in by Jennifer Y., Age 19 --- Florida December 13, 1999 " I wanted to tell you about my teacher, Mr. Cuneo. He's one of those people that you can meet only for a short period of time, but that you can never forget. He was, as you already know, my 8th grade Social Studies teacher. On the first day of 8th grade, I was in a class with people that I didn't know well at all. Most of my friends were in other classes, and I didn't know any of the teachers that I had. I didn't really have anyone to talk to, and I was feeling kind of lonely. Anyway, when History class came along, I was very surprised. Mr. Cuneo's the kind of teacher who loves what he does, and truly enjoys teaching. He was one of the first people who was kind to me that day, and didn't judge me. I found out that he had referred to me as a "nice young lady", which surprised me, since I had barley said ten words to him, and that was the first time I had met him. I have never forgotten that day, or the kindness he showed to me. Over the next few months, the people in my class didn't get much more friendly towards me, and I considered changing classes. The only thing that stopped me was Mr. Cuneo. I couldn't see leaving his class, even for all the misery they put me through. Through the year, we got to know each other better, and I came to realize that I truly cared about him. I think that one of the most important things that students forget is that teachers are people, too. I began to think of him more as another human being, rather then some distant person who was there only because they had to be. By the end of the year, I knew it was going to be extremely hard for me to leave that school. It just had to happen that my best year in that school had to be my last. Then, I heard that he was possibly being transferred to the high school that I go to now. I thought, "What could possibly be better than this?" I'm just glad that I had that hope then, so it made it easier to leave on the last day of school. One of the last things I said to him was "Goodbye, I'll miss you". I also gave him a hug, which he returned. You know how there's different types of hugs? This was a "I'm really going to miss you!" type. And right before then, when he saw me walking towards him, he smiled, and had the strangest look in his eyes. I'm still not sure what it was. Over the summer, I got a postcard from him when he was in Paris. Other students of his got them too, so I wasn't the only one. When I got to school in September, I found out that he wasn't teaching at my school, he had moved to Livingston. I was heartbroken. I just couldn't believe it. I later found out that he was being paid more there, and that he hadn't known about the change until the summer, when it was too late to tell everyone. I have tried to accept that. But still, I'd like to see him again, just to talk for a while, and really say goodbye. One of the things that I miss most about him is his smile. When he smiles, his whole face lights up, and his eyes sparkle. I remember when, as I was walking into school every day, he always used to smile at me, and say hello, and that just brightened up my whole day, whatever might happen later on. He's just that type of person. He really listened when you had a problem, and was always just so cheerful and light-hearted. He also had a knack for making history come alive. His class was the bright spot in my day. I can't go a day without thinking about him, and wanting to thank him for all he's done in my life. He taught me how to believe in myself, even when others don't, and how to become a better person. If I could have one Christmas wish, it would be to see him again. " --- Veronica, Age 14 --- New Jersey December 10, 1999 " Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for And not get." --- W. L. Bryan --- Sent in by Terésa Meyerr --- Perth, Western Australia December 8, 1999 " 2 teach is 2 touch lives 4 ever!" --- Laura B., Age 14, Ontario Canada December 6, 1999 " A truly great teacher is perpetually rocking the boat in the cause of furthering the waves of understanding that flood over the walls of defense and denial built up around young people's thirsty minds." --- Copyright © 1999 Daniel Mark Childs ---- New York December 3, 1999 " The secret of education is respecting the pupil." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Sent in by Jennnifer Y., Age 19 --- Florida December 3, 1999 " Children are sponges. Other's actions are absorbed. Is the water clean?" --- David Ian Gussin December 1, 1999 You're Someone Special Someone special is someone who thinks of those in need, and brings a bit of sunshine with every caring word and deed. Someone special is someone whose sharing makes them part of all the treasured memories that are precious to the heart. Someone special is someone who spreads happiness wherever they go, a special blessing to the world, and a special joy to know. --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Veronica,, Age 14 --- New Jersey --- Dedicated to my 8th grade Social Studiees teacher, Mr. Cuneo November 29, 1999 " To teach is to learn again." --- Oliver Wendell Holmes November 29, 1999 " The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." --- Anatole France November 24, 1999 " Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics, By Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uniformed press; But their power exists for good or evil." --- Winfred Holtby --- Sent in by Nora Magnnus --- Singapore November 22, 1999 Teacher's Serenity Prayer God grant me wisdom, creativity, and love. With wisdom, I may look to the future and see the effect that my teaching will have on these children, and thus adapt my methods to fit the needs of each one. With creativity, I can prepare new and interesting projects that can challenge my students and expand their minds to set higher goals and dream loftier dreams. With love, I can praise my students for jobs well done and encourage them to get up and go on when they fail, Lord reveal yourself through me. Amen --- Author Unknown --- Sent in Anonymously November 19, 1999 " Teaching is a great gift. Where else on earth do you get to be a star 180 days a year? If you are the type of teacher that you wish you had experienced when you were in school, you are a great teacher. I hated math and science in school. When I went to college I learned that it wasn't math and science I hated, it was the way it was taught to me. Now I teach math and science in school. Children beg to be moved into my classes. I get to perform, laugh and cry with 100 students a day. I play an important role in their life. One that I hope they will never forget." --- Copyright © Kellee Sturges --- Florida November 17, 1999 " Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." --- Jacques Barzun --- Sent in by Nora Magnnus --- Singapore November 12, 1999 " Teachers who require respect receive little, But those who show respect gain a great deal." --- Kathryn T., Age 17 --- Washington November 10, 1999 " The test and the use of man's education Is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." --- Jacques Barzun --- Sent in by Jeremy Waalker --- Michigan November 8, 1999 " Teach, encourage, inspire, respect and be good to all children. They hold your future in their hands!" --- Sherrylyn Walter --- Michigan November 5, 1999 " A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, For one single good poem, accomplishes more Than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects Classified with name and form." --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe --- Sent in by Claire Elam November 3, 1999 " Students do not need to be labeled or measured by more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication and Bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers And who take personally the failure of any one child." --- Marva Collins --- Sent in by Nora Magnuus --- Singapore November 1, 1999 THE TEACHER The teacher looked ahead with misgivings but with hope. Would the way be smooth or rough? Would it end in success or failure? The teacher stood and looked and wondered And a voice said, answering: "There will be no end." And the teacher smiled and said, "I know it will end. I may teach one year, two years, Or possibly many more years But this I know: Someday it will end." And the teacher went forward to teach. Those who gathered around the teacher had need to learn. And the teacher looked into their eyes and desired to fill their needs And taught them with mind and heart and voice -- A mind filled with knowledge from continued study, A voice speaking this knowledge in wisdom, And a heart filling the mind and voice with conviction and power. The Teacher learned from mistakes made And received happiness from lessons taught with inspiration. Then life changed, and the teacher could not teach. "It has ended," said the teacher, continuing on the road of life. "This is really the end of my teaching." And the teacher believed this until a person of good position stood and said "I am here because this teacher taught me thus." And the teacher was happy and said, "It was not the end back there -- This is the end And it could not have ended better. I am glad I taught in love and faith and prayer." Time passed; and the teacher grew old and slept and awakened And stood before the Maker. And the teacher looked and was surprised, For there stood also those who had been taught. And He, before whom they stood, questioned them And then sent them to a high place. The teacher said, "It was not the end back there -- This is the end. And it is a more glorious end than I ever could have hoped for." And joy filled the teacher's heart, as a great celestial light. And the teacher looked ahead of those who had been taught And saw the continued steps of progress and work before each one And then said: "This is not the end -- there is no end. I have just realized, there is no end to my teachings!" And a voice spoke: "When first you were called to teach, I tried to warn you of your great responsibility. But you can be thankful you taught well, In humility, in faith, in testimony -- For there is no end to your teachings." --- Copyright © Goldie B. Despain --- Sent in by Liz --- Singapore October 29, 1999 " Teaching is the profession that creates all others. I teach. It's kinda like having a love affair with a rhinoceros." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Liz --- SSingapore October 27, 1999 " Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, To have one idea spark another." --- Marva Collins --- Sent in by Nora Magnuus --- Singapore October 25, 1999 " I am a Teacher. I was born the first moment that a question leaped from the mouth of a child. I have been many people in many places. I am Socrates exciting the youth of Athens to discover new ideas through the use of questions. I am Anne Sullivan tapping out the secrets of the universe into the outstretched hand of Helen Keller. I am Aesop and Hans Christian Andersen revealing truth through countless stories. I am Marva Collins fighting for every child's right to an education. I am Mary McCleod Bethune building a great college for my people, using orange crates for desks. And I am Bel Kaufman struggling to go Up the Down Staircase. The names of those who have practiced my profession ring like a hall of fame for humanity...Booker T. Washington, Buddha, Confucius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus. I am also those whose names and faces have long been forgotten but whose lessons and character will always be remembered in the accomplishments of their students. I have wept for joy at the weddings of former students, laughed with glee at the birth of their children and stood with head bowed in grief and confusion by graves dug too soon for bodies far too young. Throughout the course of a day, I have been called upon to be an actor, friend, nurse and doctor, coach, finder of lost articles, money lender, taxi driver, psychologist, substitute parent, salesman, politician and a keeper of the faith. Despite the maps, charts, formulas, verbs, stories and books, I have really had nothing to teach, for my students really have only themselves to learn, and I know it takes the whole world to tell you who you are. I am a paradox. I speak loudest when I listen the most. My greatest gifts are in what I am willing to appreciatively receive from my students. Material wealth is not one of my goals, but I am a full-time treasure seeker in my quest for new opportunities for my students to use their talents and in my constant search for those talents that sometimes lie buried in self-defeat. I am the most fortunate of all who labor. A doctor is allowed to usher life into the world in one magic moment. I am allowed to see that life is reborn each day with new questions, ideas and friendships. An architect knows that if he builds with care, his structure may stand for centuries. A teacher knows that if he builds with love and truth, what he builds will last forever. I am a warrior, daily doing battle against peer pressure, negativity, fear, conformity, prejudice, ignorance and apathy. But I have great allies: Intelligence, Curiosity, Parental Support, Individuality, Creativity, Faith, Love and Laughter all rush to my banner with indomitable support. And who do I have to thank for this wonderful life I am so fortunate to experience, but you the public, the parents. For you have done me the great honor to entrust to me your greatest contribution to eternity, your children. And so I have a past that is rich in memories. I have a present that is challenging, adventurous and fun because I am allowed to spend my days with the future. I am a teacher...and I thank God for it every day." --- Copyright © John W. Schlatter --- Submiitted by Kathryn Sahagun ---Ontario, Canada October 22, 1999 " Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." --- Malcolm S. Forbes --- Sent in by Jenniffer Y., Age 19 --- Florida October 20, 1999 " We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, Yet we forget that he or she is someone today." --- Stacia Tausher --- Sent in by Jan Schummacher --- Pennsylvania October 18, 1999 " I've never been popular. I was never a cheerleader or even on a sports team. I had a little group of friends and hardly ever had a boyfriend. So when I got the phone call that my best friend, all the way in New York, had taken his own life it hit me as hard as it possibly could have. It was the start of a downward spiral that lasted for six months. I thought, wasn't it enough I lived in Illinois and my best friend, the only friend I could confide in, lived in New York? I couldn't see how someone who was so special could do something so wrong. For weeks I didn't tell anyone, I just walked through life like a zombie. My grades slipped, not that they were all that great, but they still suffered. None of my so-called friends knew what had happened and I guess no one really cared because no one asked me what was wrong. But then one day my gym teacher, Mrs. Verbeck, asked me if something was bothering me and I asked her if she really cared. She responded by putting her arm over my shoulders and replied of course I do. The tears burst out. It felt so good to know someone cared. She took me to her office and I spilled everything that I was bottling up. Somehow she put it all together through my sobs. We talked for the rest of the school day on why people take their lives and how important it is to let people know how you feel. She made me glad I was alive which was a feeling I hadn't felt in so long. As we all know miracles don't happen over night. I didn't come to school the next day and all of a sudden have friends that cared and good grades and everything I wanted. But as the weeks and even months went by a group of people I have grown to know as friends accepted me as their friend. At times still, I feel they don't know the real me on the inside but I stick through it and I'm always glad they're there for me. When I'm going through bad times they're always there. Someone always asks me how I'm doing. So if ever this gets out publicly, and Mrs. Verbeck happens to read it, I want to thank her because I never have before. I want to thank you, Mrs. Verbeck, for changing the life of the tear-stained, heart-broken child. You literally may have saved my life." --- Anonymous --- Age 16 --- Illinois October 15, 1999 A TEACHER'S SURVIVAL KIT FOR EVERYDAY LIVING " TOOTHPICK-reminds us to look for the good qualities in our students. You may be the only teacher who says something positive to them that day. RUBBER BAND-reminds the teacher that they have to be flexible. Things don't always go the way we plan, But flexibility will help to work it out. BAND AID-reminds the teacher that sometimes we do more than teach, That we help heal hurt feelings, broken dreams, And lend an ear to a problem. PENCIL-reminds us to be thankful and we should list our blessings daily, But also encourage our students to list their blessings And to be proud of their accomplishments. ERASER-reminds us to allow students to know we are human And make mistakes just like they do, and it's ok. We must all be able to learn from our mistakes. CHEWING GUM-reminds us to stick with it And encourage our students to do like wise. Even the impossible task or assignment can be accomplished By sticking to it. MINT-reminds us and our students we are worth a mint. (We may not be paid a mint, but are worth one.) CANDY KISS-reminds us that everyone needs a hug, Kiss, or warm fuzzy everyday. (All teachers, students, parents, and even administrators) TEA BAG-reminds us we need time to relax, Go over our blessing, and take time for others. Family, husbands, wives, friends, children need quality time together. A teacher must be willing to show their students how much they care!!!" --- Original Author Unknown --- Adaptation for teachers by Charles Nelsson and his fellow teachers --- South Carolina October 13, 1999 " There are three kinds of teachers in the world: Those who make things happen, Those who watch things happen, Those who wonder what happened. Which do you want to be?" --- Original Author Unknown --- Adaptation by Robert Gervais --- Quebecc, Canada October 11, 1999 " At the beginning of grade seven, I got a new teacher. Mrs. Hedican. I thought, she's pretty nice. That was only the first day. If you have a teacher pegged as nice the first day, they are super. But Mrs.Hedican wasn't just a wonderful teacher. She quickly became a friend. I found myself going in early some days to gab, if she was in the class. When you talked, she listened. She was always there for you when you needed a shoulder, or someone to laugh with. She didn't hide personal information like her age or anything. She treated us like the mature kids we were trying to be. One day, we went to an Art Gallery. The trip was nice enough, and she liked taking us. After, we went for a nature walk, and she decided to footrace the fastest kid in the class! We all figured we knew who would win, and we were right. The kid did. But Mrs. Hedican almost beat him, and she wasn't even out of breath! At my Confirmation, I asked my favorite teacher to be my sponsor. Just in case you don't know, a sponsor is someone who guides you in the Catholic faith. She agreed, and I had the time of my life at my Confirmation. When my parents separated, she was there to listen, and comfort me in a way only a dear friend could. I know she would have done no less for any other student. That was just her way. She even gave up recess when I really needed someone to listen. The last time I saw her was a year and a half ago, at the end of grade seven. She was moving to North Bay. But she didn't give up even then. She gave her new address to anyone who wanted it! She was and is still one of the best teachers I have had the pleasure of knowing. That's why this story is inspirational to me. We are still pen-pals, and every time I get a letter, she is touching my life again." --- Copyright © 1999 Laura Butler --- Ontarrio, Canada October 8, 1999 " Education costs money, but so does ignorance." --- Sir Claude Moser --- Submitted by Jackiie Gray --- California October 8, 1999 " A teacher who is attempting to teach, Without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, Is hammering on a cold iron." --- Horace Mann (1796-1859) --- Submitted bby Sharon Ogden --- Kentucky October 6, 1999 " The teacher who is indeed wise Does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom But rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." --- Kahlil Gibran --- Sent in by Nora Magnuus --- Singapore October 6, 1999 " The direction in which education starts a man Will determine his future life." --- Plato --- Sent in by Jennifer Y., Age 119 --- Florida October 4, 1999 The Miracle of the Beginning Reader " I wriggle and I jiggle And I rock upon my chair. I wiggle my loose tooth, And I twirl a strand of hair. I chew on several fingers And I sometimes suck my thumb. I tap the reading table, Like I'd play upon a drum. I kick my foot with rhythm Lose the place where I should look I rub my nose and clear my throat And sometimes drop my book. I look outside the window And I look down at the floor. I pay very close attention When someone's at the door. I close my eyes and rest my head: My teacher's heart must bleed. But is spite of all of this I'm learning how to read!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Deanna Gaeta --- California October 4, 1999 " The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, But to irrigate ditches." --- C.S. Lewis --- Compliments of Robert MccLain --- Texas October 1, 1999 " Inspired teachers...cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, And brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; And they must be honored and trusted." --- John Jay Chapman --- Compliments of Norra Magnus --- Singapore October 1, 1999 " Through enthusiasm, attitudes and ideas, or lack of these attributes, A teacher communicates messages that are sometimes more important Than the subject matter itself. " --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Liz --- SSingapore September 29, 1999 " We accept responsibility for children who like to be tickled, who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants, who sneak Popsicles before supper, who can never find their shoes. And we accept responsibility for those who can't bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers, who are born in places we wouldn't be caught dead, who never go to the circus, who live in an x-rated world. We accept responsibility for children who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money, who cover themselves with Band-Aids and sing off key, who squeezes toothpaste all over the sink, who slurp their soup. And we accept responsibility for those who never get dessert, who don't have any room to clean up, whose pictures aren't on anybody's dresser, whose monsters are real. We accept responsibility for children who spend all their allowance before Tuesday, who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food, who squirm in church and scream in the phone, whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles make us cry. And we accept responsibility for those whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat anything, who have never seen a dentist, who aren't spoiled by anybody, who go to be hungry and cry themselves to sleep. We accept responsibility for children who want to be carried and for those who must, for those we never give up on and for those who don't get a second chance. For those we smother... And for those who will grab the hand Of anybody kind enough to take it." --- Copyright © Ina Hughes --- Sent in by DDeanna Gaeta --- California September 29, 1999 " A good teacher remembers what it was like to be taught By their favorite teacher." --- Copyright © Robert McLain --- Texas September 27, 1999 " A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adaams --- Sent in by Jennifer Y., Age 19 --- Florrida September 27, 1999 " Not many of you should presume to be teacher, my brothers, my sister, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly." --- James 3:1 --- Sent in by Veronica, Age 14 --- New Jersey September 24, 1999 " Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." --- William Yeats September 24, 1999 Teachers " Teachers are full of patience Teacher never give up, And won't let you give up either. Teachers take students seriously. Teachers care in their sleep Teachers see the genius In every drawing, poem and essay. Teachers make you feel important. Teachers also help others. Teachers never grow old. Teachers stay famous in their student minds, Forever." --- Author Unknown September 20, 1999 " Teaching should be full of ideas, not stuffed with facts." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jennifer Y., Age 19 --- Florida September 20, 1999